Word: lourdine
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...years at Bordeaux, since its foundation by a concierge (janitress), Mme. Marie Mesmin, or "Sainted Mother Marie." The defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them. During the trial Defendant Maurice Lourdin, pointing at the Abbé, cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . , He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. . . ." "He afflicted me with shameful diseases," testified Defendant Henri Froger. "We women," testified Mme. Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries...
Pointing to the Abbé, defendant Maurice Lourdin cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . . He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. He can make people die, with or without pain, as he desires. . . . He sent upon us awful maladies. I suffer from them. . . . Our Sainted Mother suffers...
Defendant Lourdin explained: "When migrating birds passed over the Abbé, at Bombon, flying in the direction of Bordeaux, he filled them with diseases by sorcery. . . . When the birds passed over our homes at Bordeaux (500 miles away) they caused to grow poisonous mushrooms of lascivious shape and noxious odor, which gave us shameful diseases in various forms." The Abbé des Noyers boomed: "That is a frightful lie!" The other male defendant, one Henri Froger, was called: "The Abbé afflicted me likewise with shameful diseases. . . . We did not mean to kill him but only to defend our Sainted...
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