[55] According to the law it was forbidden to make effigies while trying to produce or break the spell of love. Partidas 7-23-2.
[56] The conception of wounding an image is developed further in the Prim. Crón. Gral. p. 258 a 52, where a Jew for spite enters a church and wounds the image with his knife and then, hiding it under his mantle, makes his way home, where he further mutilates it. When he reaches home he finds the mantle wet with blood but he does not notice that it has dripped on the ground, thus leaving his traces. When the Christians meet at the church they miss the image and trace it by its blood. When the Jew is found, due punishment is meted out to him.
[57] Compare this with the story of Jesus walking through the midst of the crowd that had gathered to throw him over the precipice (Luke 4:28-30).
[58] Los Tres Reyes Magos.
[59] Probably that containing the first one hnndred Cantigas. See p. 30, note 4.
[60] For a further study of conjuring, and the power of the names of the Deity see p. 113 ff.
[61] According to Las Siete Partidas, it was prohibited to bury in holy ground those who died in tournaments, for the Church forbade such pastimes. Partidas, 1-13-10.
[62] Physicians were forbidden to give medicine until after confession under penalty of excommunication, because illness, it was claimed, was often due to sin. Partidas, 1-4-83.
[63] In these three chapters, as stated above, I have summarized only a sufficient number of the miracles of this collection to illustrate the various types of supernatural phenomena presented. Some of the incidents, altho closely connected with Saint Mary, better illustrate some other phase of this study (such as the character of the Devil, the power of the Host, conjuring, etc.), and when this is the case they have been used in their appropriate place.
[64] Et quanto en síse todas las criaturas fizo buenas, mas cayeron algunas dellas en yerro; las unas por si mesmas, asi como el diablo se perdió por su orgullo et por su soberbia, et los otros por consejo de otri, asi como Adan, etc. Partidas, 1-3.—Introduction p. 38.