Note 382 — PART II.
Reading edition
This curse is alluded to in the following verse from a sixteenth-century ballad written against the men of Ay:
‘Tu n’auras ni chien ni chat Pour te chanter Libera, Et tu mourras mau-chrétien, Toi qu’a maudit Saint Trézain.’
The fountain of St. Tresain, which enjoys the reputation of curing diseases, and in the water of which it is pretended stolen food cannot be cooked, still exists at Mareuil.