Chadwick cites this as an example of how credulous and ignorant rustic communities were in those days. If one judges by today’s anti-vaxxery, such credulity and ignorance are alive and well, and flourishing on social media.

This identification, using this resolution, first appeared in twistor theory in [30], before twistorians were aware of the full BGG resolution.

there is one Mundane spright / And body, vitall corporality We have from hence.

Jumping out of an airplane does not faze him, yet he is afraid to ride a roller coaster.