Five villages went completely off their heads.

The blacksmith-pastor had to be put under temporary restraint.

Quite decent-looking, unsuspected folk confessed to far worse sins than they had ever committed.

There arose an aristocracy of outcasts.

Three inns where little worse than bad beer was sold were gutted, respectable farmers' wives drank Eau-de-Cologne instead of spirits, several over-due marriages took place, there were a number of premature births, and the membership of the football clubs was disastrously reduced.