Travels of Peter

In the name of the Lord who holds all. At that time, Simon Peter was going to one of the cities. And he found within it a woman who was suffering in great pain. And the women were gathered around her because she was in the throes of childbirth. And he saw the demon standing and waiting for the child to be born so that he might kill it. And Simon Peter said to the accursed demon, "What are you doing, and why are you waiting for the child to be born so that you may kill it?" Now Simon Peter was teaching and proclaiming the sign of holy baptism and the faith of truth. And he approached the women and said to them, "If this child lives, let this house become Christian." And when that woman who was afflicted heard this, she cried out and said to Simon Peter, "Not only this house, but the whole city, if this child lives, will draw near to the faith of truth which you proclaim, and will confess all of you." And immediately Simon Peter prayed, and the child who had died lived. And the women who were there cried out, being amazed, and said, "We confess your God, Simon Peter, who has delivered us from the hands of the enemy, a great adversary in evil deeds, and to the knowledge of truth through the mediation of Simon Peter." Then Simon Peter approached that accursed demon and said, "Until when will you spread your darkness over boys and girls to destroy them?" He cried out and said to Simon Peter, "From the day the child is formed in its mother's womb until its death, seven hours and one hundred and forty days, for the purification of children, we strike them with white, black, and red threads, and with many colors and spreads and cries, and we come in the form of a man and have intercourse with the woman and kill the fetus within her womb.

And if they are not able to come in the form of her mother, her neighbors, or her beloved, they enter the house and approach her and kill the fetus within the womb. And if they are not able in this form, they come in the form of a lion, or a leopard, or a dog, or a bear, or a serpent, or a scorpion, or a snake, and approach her clothing and cause her not to give birth. And if they are not able in this form, they come in the form of a leech that is in the water, and when she drinks, without the sign of the cross upon them, they enter her womb and kill the fetus within her womb. Then Simon cried out and said to him: It is not permitted for your darkness to approach the servants of God, for they are held by God and are exercised in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But depart from you as the east is distant from the west, and the north from the south, by the hope of Mary in the birth of the Lord, by the sanctity of the Holy Church, for it is not permitted for you, accursed and excommunicated demons, to approach the servants of the Lord Jesus Christ and their children. By the amen of the heights and the amen of the depths and by the truth of the sign and amen, amen, and amen.