Note 69 — Chapter III · - ‘THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL’
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These acrobatic performances were of course of a convulsive nature and were by contemporaries ascribed to demoniac possession. But the idea of dancing and leaping as a form of religious devotion suggests the very charming story, Our Lady’s Tumbler, which has been rewritten by Anatole France and is included in Aucassin et Nicolette and other Mediæval Romances in Everyman’s Library.