The Holy Blood And The Holy Gail

At the start of our search we did not know precisely what we were
looking for or, for that matter, looking at. We had no theories and no
hypotheses, we had set out to prove nothing. On the contrary, we were
simply trying to find an explanation for a curious little enigma of the
late nineteenth century. The conclusions we eventually reached were
not postulated in advance. We were led to them, step by step, as if
the evidence we accumulated had a mind of its own, was directing us of
its own accord.
We believed at first that we were dealing with a strictly local mystery
an intriguing mystery certainly, but a mystery of essentially minor
significance, confined to a village in the south of France. We
believed at first that the mystery, although it involved many
fascinating historical strands, was primarily of academic interest. We
believed that our investigation might help to illumine certain aspects
of Western history, but we never dreamed that it might entail
re-writing them. Still less did we dream that whatever we discovered
could be of any real contemporary relevance and explosive contemporary
relevance at that.
Our quest began -for it was indeed a quest with a more or less
straightforward story. At first glance this story was not markedly
different from numerous other "treasure stories' or "unsolved
mysteries' which abound in the history and folklore of almost every
rural region. A version of it had been publici sed in France, where it
attracted considerable interest but was not to our knowledge at the
time accorded any inordinate consequence. As we subsequently learned,
there were a number of errors in this version. For the moment,
however, we must recount the tale as it was published during the 1960s
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