And in this time she saw, as she thought, the devils opening their mouths, all inflamed with blazing flames of fire as if they were going to swallow her up, sometimes threatening her, sometimes threatening her, sometimes pulling her and waving her night and day during the said period” (Kempe 7). Craun, in his piece Personal Accounts: The Story of Margery Kempe, claims that the postpartum psychosis did not resolve completely and Margery continued to have psychotic behaviors and symptoms for the rest of her life, as he states: "Kempe continued to have psychotic symptoms for the rest of his life, although he sometimes considered them spiritual gifts" (Craun). This appears to be the beginning of Margery's episode of postpartum psychosis and the situation only gradually continues to worsen.