Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Senor, the devils were angered beyond all en¬ durance by being scalded with the holy water (that being the effect that holy water has upon devils) and so only rang the bell the more furiously in their agony of pain. Then the Senor Alcalde and the Senor Cura perceived that they could not quiet the devils, and de¬ cided to give up trying to. Therefore they came down from the belfry together—and they, and everybody with them, went away through the night’s blackness crossing themselves, and were glad to be safe again in their homes. The next day the Senor Alcalde made a formal inquest into the whole matter: citing to appear before him all the townsfolk and all the Brothers, and questioning them closely every one. And the result of this inquest was to make certain that the bell-ringer of the con¬ vent had not rung the bell; nor had any other of the Brothers rung it; nor had any of the townsfolk rung it. Therefore the Senor Alcalde, and with him the Senor Cura—whose opinion was of importance in such a matter—decided that the devil had rung it: and their decision was accepted by everybody, because that was what everybody from the beginning had believed. [78]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0120.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
