14, 15.] [Footnote 193: For tree worship, see an article by M.Henry Carnoy in _La tradition_, 15 March, 1889.] [Footnote 194: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.

422.] [Footnote 195: _Ibid._, index, under the words _Arbre des Fees_.] Every one at Domremy knew that fairies existed and that they had been seen under _l'Arbre-aux-Loges-les-Dames_.

In the old days, when Berthe was spinning, a lord of Bourlemont, called Pierre Granier,[196] became a fairy's knight, and kept his tryst with her at eve under the beech-tree.

A romance told of their loves.

One of Jeanne's godmothers, who was a scholar at Neufchateau, had heard this story, which closely resembled that tale of Melusina so well known in Lorraine.[197] But a doubt remained as to whether fairies still frequented the beech-tree.
Some believed they did, others thought they did not.