And They Say Well, That The
Creatures That They Worship Ne Be No Gods; But They Worship Them
For The Virtue That Is In Them, That May Not Be But Only By The
Grace Of God.
And of simulacres and of idols, they say, that there
be no folk, but that they have simulacres.
And that they say, for
we Christian men have images, as of our Lady and of other saints
that we worship; not the images of tree or of stone, but the
saints, in whose name they be made after. For right as the books
and the scripture of them teach the clerks how and in what manner
they shall believe, right so the images and the paintings teach the
lewd folk to worship the saints and to have them in their mind, in
whose names that the images be made after. They say also, that the
angels of God speak to them in those idols, and that they do many
great miracles. And they say sooth, that there is an angel within
them. For there be two manner of angels, a good and an evil, as
the Greeks say, Cacho and Calo. This Cacho is the wicked angel,
and Calo is the good angel. But the tother is not the good angel,
but the wicked angel that is within the idols to deceive them and
for to maintain them in their error.
There be many other divers countries and many other marvels beyond,
that I have not seen.
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