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The power of Saint Herbot consists in curing horned beasts. Suffice it to say that his clientele is considerable. During epidemics his power is triumphant, and that is the time when on his altar stand, bloody and stinking, in the middle of swarms of flies, pyramids of cows' tails. For under pain
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After he became the patron saint of horned beasts his cult spread widely, with 120 churches or chapels in
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their crops. They chased him, going so far as to throw stones at him. Herbot became angry, predicting that the inhabitants of
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of seeing his animal die, the peasant who has dedicated it to Saint Herbot must, as soon as the cure is accomplished, cut off the freed animal's
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