Volume 28, Number 7 · April 30, 1981
The Greyhound Saint
By Lester K. Little
Le saint lévrier: Guinefort, guérisseur d'enfants depuis le XIIIe siècle
by Jean-Claude Schmitt
Flammarion, 278 pp., 68 francs
The cult of St. Guinefort, who specialized in dispatching sickly children, astonished the inquisitor who happened upon it in the Dombes, a region north of Lyons, around the year 1250. When he asked about this saint he had never heard of before, he learned to his further dismay that Guinefort was a dog, a greyhound to be precise, who had been killed in the following way.
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