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Eckbert goes on to say that they are called Cathars, but are known under other names in other places: Piphles in Flanders, Texerant in France,!.!.!.Texerant was derived from the term for weaving!. Weaving was one of the professions forbidden to the clergy, being associated with heresy and magic, but the Cathars, while professing hatred for this world, realized the need to earn a living while in it and often worked as weavers!.
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