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Douceline of Digne levitated on command

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Forget elaborate setups; simply uttering specific holy words was enough to send Douceline completely airborne. Witnesses claimed that casually mentioning the divine around her acted like a massive anti-gravity switch, making casual conversation with her an entirely unpredictable physics experiment.

Douceline of Digne levitated on command
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