I'm sure we've discussed demons lurking in the lettuce -
last summer, perhaps.
Sarah
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 22:51:26 -0500 (EST) John Shinners
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> > Margaret Cormack wrote:
> > > Is>there any literature on the motif of imbibing demons and the ill
> > >effects thereof? I am interested in a variant of this motif, in which it is
> > >not a demon, but a worm of some sort which is swallowed, and the result is
> > >physical ailment (typically the victim swells up) rather than possession.
>
> Among the miracles collected at Thomas Becket's tomb in 1171, the year
> after his death, is the story of a Canterbury woman afflicted with
> horrible suppurating, swollen facial tumor who is given a swallow of
> "St.Thomas's Water." Immediately, she coughs up a one-and-a-half inch
> four-footed (sic) worm with a tail like an awl, which some believed to be
> sent from "the Enemy." This is recounted in gross detail in vol. II of
> _Materials for the History of Thomas Becket_ in the Roll Series (67) and
> translated by E. A. Abbott in _St. Thomas of Canterbury, His Life and
> Miracles_ (1898). I don't have the page numbers handy for either volume,
> but the miracle is in Book II, ch. 18. I have a translation of the story
> as a text file I could send you if you'd like.
>
> John S.
>
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