Jean
A magician, votary of Apollonius of Tyana. He went from town to town, wearing an iron collar, and making his living by the performance of deeds of charletanry. At Lyons he attained some measure of fame by his miraculous cures, and was admitted to the presence of the sovereign, to whom he presented a magnificent enchanted sword. In battle this weapon became surrounded by nine score drawn knives. Jean also gave this prince a shield containing a magic mirror which would divulge the greatest secrets The arms vanished, or were stolen.
Jean, or Iwan Basilowitz: Grand Duke of Muscory in the fourteenth century. When at the point of death he fell into terrible swoons, during which his soul made toilsome journeys. In the first he was tormented for having kept innocent prisoners in his dungeons, in the second, he was tortured still more for having ground the people under heavy tasks; during the third voyage he died, but his body disappeared mysteriously before he could be buried, and it was thought that the devil had taken him.