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from the graveyard[a] where he had been living. No one was able to tie the man up anymore, not even with a chain. He had often been put in chains and leg irons, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one could control him. Night and day he was in the graveyard or on the hills, yelling and cutting himself with stones.

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  1. 5.3 graveyard: It was thought that demons and evil spirits lived in graveyards.

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