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Rh While Beket was in France, at Pountenay, he had a dream:

The following very interesting item of folklore refers to the feast held on the Christmas day before the martyrdom:

If we adopt the reading "St. Thomas," we are led to ask whether it was the hounds' sense of smell, or some other sense of discrimination that enabled them to make choice of the morsels that he had not touched? Was it a natural feeling of aversion on their part that led them to have nothing to do with him—like the rats leaving a sinking ship?

Of oaths: