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Miracle data
Source name: BL Mariale 1
Short title: Devil in Three Beast-Shapes
Poncelet Number: 1187 - Olim fuit quidam monachus in quadam (al. add. monachorum)
Reference numbers: book3 no.7
Foliation in source: f. 132
Incipit: Olim fuit quidam monachus
Summary: How the Devil frightened a drunken Monk three times, in the form of a bull, a dog, and a lion; and how each time the Monk was rescued by the Virgin (II, 612).