Rob
Meens, ‘
Thunder over Lyon: Agobard, the tempestarii and Christianity’ in
Paganism in the Middle Ages... (2012): 164 offers a seventh-century parallel from the
Vita of St Richarius (Riquier): here two Irish monks, on arriving in Siccambria, are encountered by a crowd of people who believe them to be
dusi, or
hemaones (var.
maones, potentially related to
Magonia) as they call them, who are intent on stealing crops from the land. Just as Agobard saves the day, Richarius saves the monks from the angry mob. For
ma(v)ones in other sources (e.g.
Scarapsus Pirminii), see Meens and now also a marginal note by Florus of Lyon, which is described and discussed by Pierre Chambert-Protat (citation forthcoming).