Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Ecclesiastical History/Book III/Chapter 21

.&#8212;''Of the sorcery at Carr&#230; which was detected after his death. After he was slain the jugglery of his sorcery was detected. For Carr&#230; is a city which still retains the relics of his false religion''.

had left Edessa on his left because it was adorned with the grace of true religion, and while in his vain folly he was journeying through Carr&#230;, he came to the temple honoured by the impious and after going through certain rites with his companions in defilement, he locked and sealed the doors, and stationed sentinels with orders to see that none came in till his return. When news came of his death, and the reign of iniquity was succeeded by one of piety, the shrine was opened, and within was found a proof of the late emperor&#8217;s manliness, wisdom, and piety. For there was seen a woman hung up on high by the hairs of her head, and with her hands outstretched. The villain had cut open her belly, and so I suppose learnt from her liver his victory over the Persians.

This was the abomination discovered at Carr&#230;.