The Sorceress, the Friar, and the Greyhound Saint: A Film on Peasant Healing Rites in 13th-Century France

FAIN: GN-22654-86

Lara Classics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA 02139)
Pamela C. Berger (Project Director: September 1985 to October 1988)

To support the production of a 90-minute dramatic feature film about the eventsand conflicts that occurred in a 13th-century French village when a Dominican friar, an early inquisitor, uncovered an ancient peasant healing ritual. The story is taken from the text of Etienne de Bourbon, written in the late 1520s.