An attempt was made to incriminate her in a pact made with the Devil near the Fairy Tree. She was not to be caught thus, but retorted by prophesying her deliverance and the destruction of her enemies. "Those who wish to banish me from this world may very likely leave it before me.... I know that my King will win the realm of France."
She was asked what she had done with her mandrake. She said she had never had one.[713]
Then the examiner appeared to be seized with curiosity concerning Saint Michael. "Was he clothed?"
She replied: "Doubt ye that Messire lacks wherewithal to clothe himself?"
"Had he hair?"
"Wherefore should he have cut it off?"
"Did he hold scales?"
"I don't know."[714]
Their object was to ascertain whether she saw Saint Michael as he was represented in the churches, with scales for weighing souls.[715]
When she said that at the sight of the Archangel it seemed to her she was not in a state of mortal sin, the examiner fell to arguing on the subject of her conscience. She replied like a true Christian.[716] Then he returned to the miracle of the sign, which had not been referred to since the first sitting, to the mystery of Chinon, to that wondrous crown, which Jeanne, following Saint Catherine of Alexandria, believed she had received from the hand of an angel. But she had promised Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret to say nothing about it.