text:  As she effected this through the influence which a belief in her supernatural power and celestial inspiration exerted upon the army of Charles; and as on the other hand the cruel fate she herself personally encountered from her enemies was the consequence of an opposite belief in her witchcraft or possession by the devil; the unhappy maiden presents herself to us in a strictly historical point of view as one of those wild visionaries whom solitude occasionally rears become suddenly the sport of the tumultuous feelings of two rival hosts elevated by the one to a saint and the companion of angels and by the other blackened into a witch and the associate of demons