HaShem rained hail from heaven for three days and two nights, and that year locusts came upon the state of France, and they had six wings, six legs, and two teeth, and they ate all the fruit of the trees and produce, and they died and the land became putrid, and from this came a great plague, and in those days the plague came to Spain and Italy and Ashkenaz. A woman from the east - there had never been anything like it [(Tzed"h part b)].