Folk pointed at her mockingly, saying: "There goes she who is to restore France and the royal house."[350] [Footnote 350: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.

421, cf.p.433, "_et alii juvenes de ea deridebant_," said Colin's son, referring to her piety.] The neighbours had no difficulty in finding a cause for the strangeness which possessed the damsel.

They attributed it to some magic spell.

She had been seen beneath the _Beau Mai_ bewreathing it with garlands.

The old beech was known to be haunted as well as the spring near by.