Hence a line like this from María de Ágreda, the Lady in Blue (for the color of the habit seen by the Jumano people of New Mexico and Texas), on the way her bilocations from Spain to North America were received: “They are accurate about some things . . . but other things have been added and exaggerated.”101 That could well be a motto for the entire history of religions, where fraud and fact, trick and truth, and experience and exaggeration go together again and again, and again.
