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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|Victor Hugo}} thus describes the doings of the wise people of Guernsey in the last and present decade:—“Nothing is commoner than sorcerers in Guernsey. They exercise their profession in certain parishes, in profound indifference to the enlightenment of the nineteenth century. Some of their practices are downright criminal. They set gold boiling, they gather herbs at midnight, they cast sinister looks upon the people’s cattle. When the people consult them, they send for bottles containing 1 water' of the sick,’ and they are heard to mutter mysteriously, ‘the water has a sad look.’ In March, 1857, one of them discovered, in water of this kind, seven demons. They are universally feared. Another only lately bewitched a baker, 1 as well as his oven!’ Another bad the diabolical wickedness to wafer and seal up envelopes ‘containing nothing inside!’ Another went so far as to have on a shelf three bottles labelled ‘B.’ These monstrous facts are well authenticated. Some of these sorcerers arc obliging, and for two or three guineas will take on themselves the complaint from which you are suffering. Then they are seen to roll upon their beds, and to groan with pain; and while they are in these agonies the believer exclaims, ‘There! I am well again Others cure all kinds of diseases by merely tying a handkerchief round their patients’ loins—a remedy so simple that it is astonishing that no one had yet thought of it. In the last century, the Cour Royale of Guernsey bound such folks upon a heap of faggots, and burnt them alive. In these days it condemns them to eight weeks’ imprisonment, four weeks on bread and water, and the remainder of the term in solitary confinement.” The last consignment of a sorcerer to the flames in Guernsey was in 1747. Between 1565 and 1700, eleven sorcerers were burnt alive in the Carrefour du Bordage, the square devoted by the city authorities to the extirpation of sorcery and heresy. | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals| When}} a woman bears to her husband seven male children consecutively, the seventh is a Marcou. But the series must not be broken by the birth of any female child. The Marcou has a natural fleur-de-lys imprinted on some part of his body; for which reason he has the power of curing scrofula, exactly the same as the kings of France. Marcous are found in all parts of France, but particularly in the Orleanais. Every village of Gatinais has its Marcou. It is sufficient for the cure of the sick that the Marcou should breathe upon their wounds, or let them touch his fleur-de-lys. The night of Good Friday is particularly favourable to these ceremonies. Ten years ago there lived at Ormes, in Gatinais, one of these creatures, who was nicknamed the Beau Marcou, and consulted by all the country of Bcauce. He was a cooper, named Foulon, who kept a horse and vehicle. To put a stop to his miracles, it was I found necessary to call in the aid of the gensdarmes. His fleur de-lys was on the left breast; other Marcous have it in different parts''.—Victor Hugo.'' | ||
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london_spiritualist_n.369_1879-09-19.pdf|page=13|London Spiritualist, No. 369, September 19, 1879, p. 143 | |||
london_spiritualist_n.369_1879-09-19.pdf|page=5|London Spiritualist, No. 369, September 19, 1879, p. 135 | |||
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