It stopped there for seven years, for no doctor was able to take it out.

Her hand shrivelled up, and she could no longer open it.

Well, she got to Lourdes, and dipped her hand into the piscina.

But as soon as she did so she began to shriek, and took it out again.

Then they caught hold of her and put her hand into the water by force, and kept it there while she continued sobbing, with her face covered with sweat.