Gregorius Turonensis Episcopus, De Miraculis Sancti Martini Episcopi

Conjux Serenati hominis nostri, cum de cultura, viro præmisso rediret, subito inter manus dilapsa comitantium terras corruit, ligataque 1135 lingua, nullum verbum ex ore potens proferre, obmutuit. Interea accedentibus ariolis, ac dicentibus eam me- ridiani dæmonii d incursum pati, ligamina herbarum atque incantationum verba proferebant; senme- . dicaminis juxta morem conferre poterant periturae. Cumque familia mixio ululatu perstreperet, filius ejus ad neptem nostram Eusteniam " anhelus accurrit, uuntians matrem suam extremæ vitae terminum attigisse. Quæ adveniens ad aegrotam, eamque visitans, amotisque ligaminibus quae stulti indiderant, oleum beati sepulcri ori ejus infudit, ceraque sofivit b. Mox sermone reddito, nequitiae dolo dirempto, aegra convaluit.

The wife of our man Serenatus, when she was returning from the farm, her husband having been sent on ahead, suddenly slipped from the hands of those accompanying her and collapsed to the ground; and, her tongue bound, unable to bring any word out of her mouth, she fell mute. Meanwhile soothsayers came, saying that she was suffering the attack of the noonday demon, and they applied bindings of herbs and words of incantations; but they could bring no remedy, as is their way, to the dying woman. And when the household was resounding with mingled wailing, her son ran breathless to our niece Eustenia, announcing that his mother had reached the very end of her life. She came to the sick woman and visited her, and, removing the bindings which the fools had put on, she poured oil from the blessed tomb into her mouth and fumigated [her] with wax. Soon, her speech restored and the deceit of wickedness broken, the sick woman recovered.