Prelati rolls up the poor remains in linen and, trembling, goes out at night to bury them in consecrated ground beside a chapel dedicated to Saint Vincent.
"Gilles preserves the blood of this child to write formulas of evocation and conjurements.

It manures a horrible crop.

Not long afterward the Marshal reaps the most abundant harvest of crimes that has ever been sown.
"From 1432 to 1440, that is to say during the eight years between the Marshal's retreat and his death, the inhabitants of Anjou, Poitou, and Brittany walk the highways wringing their hands.

All the children disappear.

Shepherd boys are abducted from the fields.