Bad seeds are earthborn spirits who "have very heavy karma and have to be reborn instantly [as equally bad people]....

but after longe fyght, the vyctory fell vnto the erle of Salesbury, and the other lordys vpon his partye, and the kinges hoost was sparbled and chasyd, and many of his noble men slayne

Far out across the Dust Sea, a great, rolling cloud of debris was being blown high into the Phobosian sky—easily eclipsing the plume generated by Beuller's pulses—fifty, maybe sixty meters up and rising.

1827, Francis Baily, Astronomical Tables and Formulæ (published by John Richardson) (link)