ssess the singular appellation of "Wiggo," and revealed himself in the
presence of many witnesses, before the altar, close to the relics of the
blessed martyrs. It is noteworthy that the revelations appear to have
been made in the shape of replies to the questions of the exorcising
priest; and there is no means of judging how far the answers are,
really, only the questions to which the patient replied yes or no.

The possessed girl, about sixteen years of age, was brought by her
parents to the basilica of the martyrs.

When she approached the tomb containing the sacred bodies, the
priest, according to custom, read the formula of exorcism over her
head. When he began to ask how and when the demon had entered her,
she answered, not in the tongue of the barbarians, which alone the
girl knew, but in the Roman tongue. And when the priest was
astonished and asked how she came to know Latin, when her parents,
who stood by, were wholly ignorant of it, "Thou hast never seen my
parents," was the reply. To this the priest, "Whence art thou,
then, if these are not thy parents?" And the demon, by the mouth of
the girl, "I am a follower and disciple of Satan, and for a long
time I was gatekeeper (janitor) in hell; but, for some years, along
with eleven companions, I have ravaged the kingdom of the Franks."
(Cap. v. 49.)

He then goes on to tell how they blasted the crops and scattered
pestilence among beasts and men, because of the prevalent wickedness of
the people.[21]

The enumeration of all these iniquities, in oratorical style, takes up a
whole octavo page; and at the end it is stated, "All these things the
demon spoke in Latin by the mouth of the girl."

And when the priest imperatively ordered him to come out, "I shall
go," said he, "not in obedience to you, but on account of the power
of the saints, who do not allow me to remain any longer." And,
having said this, he threw the girl down on the floor and there
compelled her to lie prostrate for a time, as though she slumbered.
After a little while, however, he going away, the girl, by the
power of Christ and the merits of the blessed martyrs, as it were
awaking from sleep, rose up quite well, to the astonishment of all
present; nor after the demon had gone out was she able to speak
Latin: so that it was plain enough that it was not she who had
spoken in