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Quote #7
Then [Father Gonzaga] noticed that seen close up he was much too human: he had an unbearable smell of the outdoors, the back side of his wings was strewn with parasites and his main feathers had been mistreated by terrestrial winds, and nothing about him measured up to the proud dignity of angels. (5)
We're getting right down to it now: people expect beauty and hygiene from their supernatural beings, not pesky, mundane problems like BO and fleas.
Quote #8
His only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience. Especially during the first days, when the hens pecked at him, searching for the stellar parasites that proliferated in his wings, and the cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing. (8)
The angel is assumed to be a supernatural being because of his wings (pretty good assumption), but he doesn't really do anything, well, supernatural to prove that he's anything special. He just acts like an ordinary, helpless old man. And, like a lot of ordinary and helpless old men, he gets abused.
Quote #9
While still practically a child she had sneaked out of her parents' house to go to a dance, and while she was coming back through the woods after having danced all night without permission, a fearful thunderclap rent the sky in two and through the crack came the lightning bolt of brimstone that changed her into a spider. (10)
Here's our second glimpse of the supernatural. But the question is—is this lady really supernatural? Or is she just a hoax?