He did not think, for instance, that if St.Margaret's prayer were applied as a poultice to a woman in travail that the pains of childbirth would be softened.
Even the venerable patron saint of Penguinia did not escape his rigid criticism.

This is what he says of her in his "Antiquities of Alca": "Nothing is more uncertain than the history, or even the existence, of St.Orberosia.An ancient anonymous annalist, a monk of Dombes, relates that a woman called Orberosia was possessed by the devil in a cavern where, even down to his own days, the little boys and girls of the village used to play at a sort of game representing the devil and the fair Orberosia.

He adds that this woman became the concubine of a horrible dragon, who ravaged the country.

Such a statement is hardly credible, but the history of Orberosia, as it has since been related, seems hardly more worthy of belief.

The life of that saint by the Abbot Simplicissimus is three hundred years later than the pretended events which it relates and that author shows himself excessively credulous and devoid of all critical faculty." Suspicion attacked even the supernatural origin of the Penguins.