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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Holy Greyhound

Guinefort, Healer of Children since the Thirteenth Century

by Jean-Claude Schmitt · Martin Thom (trans.)

A classic of the history of popular religion, first published in French in 1979, analysing a thirteenth-century inquisitor's account of peasants who venerated a greyhound as a saint and brought sickly infants, believed to be changelings, to its grave.

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