CATHARSIS
The smithy was full of people, talking about the hillfolk. Speculating particularly on Artemisia, given Guilhem’s revelation. Sibilla was particularly accusatory. Guilhem-the-smith had finally had enough. He calmly listed the men she, Sibilla, had been sleeping with.
“Slut,” she was called, openly. Everyone had known it, but now they said it.
The next day, Sibilla turned the whole of Saint-Guilhem upside down. She named Fr Louis again as the father of one of her children, as the father of Fiz and his two friends. This time she named him formally, in public. The abbot was forced to act. Louis was deprived of his parish pending investigation. There was no priest at Saint-Barthelmy.
The townsfolk were more worried about the leadership of the Saint-Barthelmy congregation and what
