Such was his urgency, he entered the healers' wagon without warning those inside, which was a mistake, for Lanna was playing tabula with Ramon on the rear pallet – and both were naked.

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.

It is to be noted that the Dagger does not become a regular feature of knightly accoutrement till the middle of the fourteenth century. … A very usual form, both in military and civilian circles, was the Ballok Knife (moderns term it a kidney dagger), a type that persisted till the sixteenth century, and whose modern analogue is the Highland dirk (skean-dhu).

I have analysed a total of 24 prophetic glossas in this way, and 10 passages of the more easily intelligible prayer specimens of glossolalia. These glossas emanate from a total of 15 persons.