for over half an hour i listened on to this chatter , as the trial was described to me , and how deborah protested her innocence , even before the judges and before those of the village who were admitted to witness it , and how she herself had written to his majesty king louis , and how they had sent to dole for the witch pricker , and had then stripped her naked in her cell , and cut off her long raven hair , shaving her head after that , and searched her for the devil 's mark .