Thursday, June 07, 2012
Rash Females
C. Grant Loomis (1901-1963), White Magic: An Introduction to the Folklore of Christian Legend (Cambridge: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1948), p. 97 (endnote 1 omitted):
A Rash Female
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Women were usually forbidden to enter into the presence of those holy men who had taken leave of the world. Many sacred places were closed to the female sex, but restrictions were made to be broken....The rash females who tried to enter the church of John Nepomuck were struck by a blast of wind which caused their skirts to cling to their heads, shamefully exposing them to the eyes of the crowd.9Endnote 9 on p. 207:
AASS, May, III, 679, col. 2. See also Cuthbert, AASS, Mar., III, 133, col. 2; and Bartholomaeus, Horstmann, I, 104.AASS = Acta Sanctorum; Horstman = Carl Horstman, Nova Legenda Anglie, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901).
