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martyrs and confessors, who by their holy works are
found pleasing to God Almighty, curse him or them. May
the holy choir of the holy virgins, who for the honour
of Christ have despised the things of this world,
curse him or them. May all the saints, who from the
beginning of the world to everlasting ages are found
to be the beloved of God, curse him or them. May the
heavens and the earth, and all the holy things
remaining thereon, curse him or them. May he or they
be cursed wherever he or they be, whether in their
house, or in their field, or in the highway, or in the
path, or in the wood, or in the water, or in the
church. May he or they be cursed in living, in dying,
in eating, in drinking, in being hungry, in being
thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in slumbering, in
waking, in walking, in standing, in sitting, in lying,
in working, in resting, in * * * * in * * * * and in
blood-letting. May he or they be cursed in all the
faculties of their body. May he or they be cursed
inwardly and outwardly. May he or they be cursed in
the hair of his or their head. May he or they be
cursed in his or their brain. May he or they be cursed
in the top of his or their head, in their temples, in
their foreheads, in their ears, in their eyebrows, in
their cheeks, in their jaw-bones, in their nostrils,
in their teeth or grinders, in their lips, in their
throat, in their shoulders, in their wrists, in their
arms, in their hands, in their fingers, in their
breast, in their heart, and in the interior parts to
the very stomach, in their veins, in their groin, in
their thighs, in their genitals, in the hips, in the
knees, in the legs, in the feet, in the joints, and in
the nails. May he or they be cursed in all their
joints, from the top of the head to the sole of the
foot. May there not be any soundness in him or them.
May the Son of the Living God, with all the glory of
His Majesty, curse him or them; and may heaven, with
all the powers which move therein, rise against him or
them, to damn him or them, unless he or they shall
repent, or that he or they shall make satisfaction.
Amen, Amen. So be it."

The superstition connected with excommunication was not confined to
the churches and natio