Word: autun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn out three times a year to fight locusts by crushing them. During the Middle Ages, people frequently relied on ecclesiastical courts to control infestation by pests. In 1120 the Bishop of Leon in France excommunicated the caterpillars that were consuming local crops. In 1488 the high vicar of Autun took a similar step; he directed priests of neighboring parishes to order weevils to stop their attacks on grainfields and to excommunicate the insects. Undeterred, the weevils...