Les paysans redoutaient l’abbé Blanès comme un grand magicien : pour lui, à l’aide de la peur qu’inspiraient ses stations dans le clocher, il les empêchait de voler.
The _contadini_ looked upon Priore Blanès with awe as a great magician: for his part, by dint of the fear that his nightly stations in the belfry inspired, he restrained them from stealing.