Note 832 — Chapter IV · MAGIC AND RELIGION
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J. Lecœur, Esquisses du Bocage Normand (Condé-sur-Noireau, 1883–1887), ii, 78. In Beauce and Perche it was especially conflagrations caused by lightning which the priest was supposed to extinguish by the recitation of certain secret formulas. There was a regular expression for this procedure, namely, “barring the fire.” See F. Chapiseau, Le Folk-lore de la Beauce et du Perche, i. 216.