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First a young hairdresser in Stigmata collapses on a crowded dance floor as an invisible crown of thorns is pounded into her head.
In 1239, there was the procession of Louis IX, barefoot, carrying his holy treasure, Jesus’s Crown of Thorns (now in the Sainte-Chapelle); in 1430, it saw the humiliation of Henry VI of England (he was crowned King of France here; see page 15).
' Porcupine , from Latin, is a `pig with thorns.
Both were portrayed as thorns in the side of the royal family.
(To Molina's list of bugs, sun, and windblown salt, I add cold; rain; thorns; poisonous plants; days or weeks without showers; steep, rugged terrain; snakes; lack of roads; lack of water ...)