_Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p.

236.] The tree, the spring, and the mandrake caused the inhabitants of Domremy to be suspected of holding converse with evil spirits.

A learned doctor said plainly that the country was famous for the number of persons who practised witchcraft.[213] [Footnote 213: _Trial_, vol.i, p.

209.] When quite a little girl, Jeanne journeyed several times to Sermaize in Champagne, where dwelt certain of her kinsfolk.

The village priest, Messire Henri de Vouthon, was her uncle on her mother's side.