Note 396 — Chapter V · RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE

For instance, a lady of Blois, attacked with a decline, “bewitched,” it was said, had a mass said at Notre Dame des Aides; then a witch lay full length upon the patient, mumbling her wicked charms. The sick lady was at once cured; it is true that, two months afterwards, she had a relapse and died, but the witch attributed that accident to her own unruly tongue.