LES BAUX FROM LEVEL OF THE TOWN.
By E. M. Synge.
As Tavèn and her charges penetrate further into these wilds, a blast of wind and a "pack of elves shriek through the crypt," which is full of wailing.
Tavèn warns her scared visitors to keep on their "charmed crowns," and to be undismayed by the huge apparition that they see in the dusk: la Lavandière, "whose throne is on Ventoux," where she makes rain and lightning.
The whole dark factory of Evil is shown to the adventurers. They are told how, on the last three days of February and the first three of March, the tombs all open and the tapers kindle, and
"the drowsy dead
In ghastly order bend their knees to pray."
A phantom priest performs mass and the church bells ring themselves of their own accord.
But one can hear the bells of Les Baux ringing thus on wild March days and nights!