She lived at the convent until 1484, when she believed God summoned her to found a religious order.
James I had come to the throne a firm believer in the pervasive threat of demonic forces: he believed witches had summoned up storms in an attempt to drown his bride-to-be as she tried to sail from Scotland to England.
Yeats believed he had summoned the Queen of the Fairies; Langrish has her doubts about this.
In 1589, King James VI of Scotland believed witches had summoned the storms that prevented his bride, Anna of Denmark, reaching Scottish shores.
On at least one occasion, he believes, having been summoned to No 10 with a reshuffle in the offing, the job he left with was not the one he was originally to be offered.
He's resented as a liability by Jeanne (who's missing her too-adored RAF son), is fussed over by Jeanne's 10-year-old daughter, who believes she has summoned him as a celestial saviour (hence "Gabriel", his given name) and is tended to, in a more ardent, swiftly carnal way, by Jeanne's (covertly Jewish) daughter-in-law Lily.
Ellen believes Jenny Uphouse summoned the spirits, but she denies it.
While it might seem like "stay cool" was tailor-made for the likes of me, to this day, I believe my father summoned the last ounce of his strength, and was talking to himself.
Whether you believe prayer summons holy powers that intervene or if you think it cosmically aligns us with the feminine energies of the mother goddess, if you think it's just our imagination or even clinical insanity, it can't hurt.
Sipho Seepe, a longtime critic of Mr. Mbeki who leads the South African Institute of Race Relations, said he believed that the summons signaled the start of a political endgame between the forces supporting Mr. Mbeki and Mr. Zuma.
