2. possessed persons were supposed to be able to discern secrets and predict evens of which they could have no natural knowldege - i. e., they had clairvoyance;3. possessed persons had abnormal bodily strength and intensivity to pain; and4. possessed persons expressed revulsion at holy things, especially the reading of scripture or contact with holy water or other blessed objects (Walker, p. 12).Under investigation by Marescot and four other physicians, it was shown that Marthe Brosier coud understand neither Latin nor Greek, as her advocates had claimed; that she had no reaction to holy water that was passed off as ordinary water, but that she convulsed when she was given plain water she was told was blessed; that she showed no special clairvoyant powers;