_How the Magician was Destroyed._
And there was in that place a certain magician named Lochu, who was
highly favored with the king, and he uttered blasphemies against the
Lord and his Christ. For being driven mad by the delusions of devils,
he declared himself to be a god; and the people, being dazzled with his
cheats, and stubbornly adhering to his pernicious doctrine, worshipped
him even as a deity. Therefore he continually blasphemed the ways of
the Lord, and those who were desirous to be converted from idolatry did
he labor to subvert in their faith, and to pervert from Christ. And
almost in the same manner as Simon Magus resisted Saint Peter did he
oppose Saint Patrick. And on a certain time, when he was raised from
the earth by the prince of darkness and the powers of the air, and the
king and the people beheld him as if ascending into the heavens, Saint
Patrick thus prayed unto the Lord: "O omnipotent God! destroy this
blasphemer of Thine holy name, nor let him hinder those who now return
or may hereafter return unto Thee!" And he prayed, and the magician
fell from the air to the earth at the feet of the man of God, and his
head was stricken against a stone, and, bruised and wounded, he
expired, and his spirit descended into hell.