Acts of Thomas

Acts of Thomas 64:1

“I now began to ask my wife, What is it that had happened to thee? And she said, Dost thou not perceive what happened to me? For I asked of thee not to let me go to the wedding, since I did not feel very well. And as I walked by the way and came to the aqueduct, I saw a black man before me and his head shaking a little to me and a boy like him, standing by his side. And I said to my daughter, Look at these two ugly-looking men, whose teeth are like milk and whose lips are like soot. And we left them at the aqueduct and went on. After sunset, having broken off from the wedding, and gone with the slaves through (the city), and when near the aqueduct, my daughter noticed them first and she came to me. And after her I saw them also, coming towards us, and we ran away from them. And the slaves also, which were with us ran away. (And they) beat us, and threw us down. And as she told me this, the demons came near again and threw her down. And since that hour they can go out no more, being locked up in one or in another house. And on their account I suffer much and am troubled. For wherever they are they throw them down and uncover them. I ask thee, therefore, to pray to God: help me and have mercy upon me! For since three years no table (for the meal) has been set up in my house, and my wife and my daughter sat at no meal. Especially (I ask thee) for my unhappy daughter, which has not seen anything good yet in this world.