The soldiers struggled to kill the old woman, who proved impervious to their efforts.
Her power over the water terrified the soldiers, and they immediately concluded it was supernatural. Somehow she was able to turn it from side to side, changing direction at will, oblivious of the current, ignoring the laws of nature. The old woman was not merely floating on the raft, but manipulating it unnaturally. As a contemporary pamphlet tells it, some soldiers searching for food before the first battle of Newbury had a strange encounter with an old woman, spotted in the act of crossing a river on a raft.
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