Melusine (or Melusina) is a figure of European legends and folkore, a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers.
About 1050 the monks of
Vézelay began to claim to hold the relics of Mary Magdalene, brought, they related, from the Holy Land either by their
9th-century founder-saint, Badilo, or by envoys despatched by
him. Stone carving, eleventh century.
