Tollà environ dix ans, ' about ten years ago

7. les Jnift. The idea that Jews carried off Christian children to sacrifice was a notion prévalent in the Middle Ages, and still lingers in Hungary and some other European countries.

II. la ladrerie, 'the leper-house,' or perhaps merely 'hospital.' Ladre is a corruption of Lazare, Lazarus being the name given to the diseased beggar in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.