But she would rather do housework or sew or spin. She was pious. She swore neither by God nor his saints; and to assert the truth of anything she was content to say: "There's no mistake."[181] When the bells rang for the _Angelus_, she crossed herself and knelt.[182] On Saturday, the Holy Virgin's day, she climbed the hill overgrown with grass, vines, and fruit-trees, with the village of Greux nestling at its foot, and gained the wooded plateau, whence she could see on the east the green valley and the blue hills. On the brow of the hill, barely two and a half miles from the village, in a shaded dale full of murmuring sounds, from beneath beeches, ash-trees, and oaks gush forth the clear waters of the Saint-Thiebault spring, which cure fevers and heal wounds. Above the spring rises the chapel of Notre-Dame de Bermont. In fine weather it is pervaded by the scent of fields and woods, and winter wraps this high ground in a mantle of sadness and silence. In those days, clothed in a royal cloak and wearing a crown, with her divine child in her arms, Notre-Dame de Bermont received the prayers and the offerings of young men and maidens. She worked miracles. Jeanne used to visit her with her sister Catherine and the boys and girls of the neighbourhood, or quite alone. And as often as she could she lit a candle in honour of the heavenly lady.[183] [Footnote 181: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 404.] [Footnote 182: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 423.] [Footnote 183: _Trial_, index, at the word _Bermont_. Du Haldat, _Notice sur la chapelle de Belmont_, in the _Memoires de l'Academie Stanislas de Nancy_, 1833-1834, p. 96. E. Hinzelin, _Chez Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 95. Lanery d'Arc, _Livre d'or_, p. 330.] A mile and a quarter west of Domremy was a hill covered with a dense wood, which few dared enter for fear of boars and wolves. Wolves were the terror of the countryside. The village mayors gave rewards for every head of a wolf or wolf-cub brought them.[184] This wood, which Jeanne could see from her threshold, was the Bois Chesnu, the wood of oaks, or possibly the hoary [_chenu_] wood, the old forest.[185] We shall see later how this Bois Chesnu was the subject of a prophecy of Merlin the Magician. [Footnote 184: Alexis Monteil, _Histoire des Francois_, vol. i, p. 91.] [Footnote 185: _Trial_, index, under the words _Bois Chesnu_.]