If you persist in your blindness I will have your body rent in pieces." And Margaret made answer: "Jesus suffered death for me, and I would fain die for him." Then the governor commanded her to be hung from the wooden horse, to be beaten with rods, and her flesh to be torn with iron claws.

And the blood flowed from the virgin's body as from a pure spring of fresh water.
Those who stood by wept, and the governor covered his face with his cloak that he might not see the blood.

And he commanded to unloose her and take her back to prison.
There she was tempted by the Spirit, and she prayed the Lord to reveal to her the enemy whom she had to withstand.

Thereupon a huge dragon, appearing before her, rushed forward to devour her, but she made the sign of the cross and he disappeared.

Then, in order to seduce her, the devil assumed the form of a man.