The Manifestation of Jason Potter
![Jason Potter](images/DSC02099.jpg)
Self-portrait of the artist, oil on canvas.
An animal of a human form is buried
under earth; and upon being dug up emits a very powerful
and disagreeable scent, which, according to the variation
of the seasons, is an admirable specific against bats and
mice. The skin being white with streakings of the heavenly
light and transparency of the atmosphere in a fine
autumnal morning surpasses that which is slightly tainted
by frost: and the body being divided and measured does
locally move and stir the ground up and down: it is seen
to move in a most exact and regular order, so that in
another place it may touched by the hands to still the
spirit, and in a fine manner descend once again into the
earth. It is this that induces sleep. No substance of any
other creature will so thoroughly pervade the whole.
Dangerous influences will be anticipated, and will ensure
the death of the animal.