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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

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397.] [Footnote 201: _Ibid._, p.390.Bergier, _Dictionnaire de theologie_, under the word _Conjuration_.] My Lord Aubert d'Ourches held that there had been no fairies at Domremy for twenty or thirty years.[202] On the other hand there were those in the village who believed that Christians still held converse with them and that Thursday was the trysting day.
[Footnote 202: _Trial_, vol.i, p.

187.] Yet another of Jeanne's godmothers, the wife of the mayor Aubrit, had with her own eyes seen fairies under the tree.

She had told her goddaughter.

And Aubrit's wife was known to be no witch or soothsayer but a good woman and a circumspect.[203] [Footnote 203: _Ibid._, pp.

67, 209.] In all this Jeanne suspected witchcraft.


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