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PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I: THE LAND, THE PEOPLE AND THEIR STORY

The Breton Tongue

The Ancient Armoricans

Samson

Wax for Wine

The Vision of Jud-Hael

Taliesin

Hervé the Blind

Nomenoë

Alain Barbe-torte

Bretons and Normans

The Poisoned Hunting-Horn

French Influence

The War of the Two Joans

Bertrand Du Guesclin

Anne of Brittany

CHAPTER II: MENHIRS AND DOLMENS

What Menhirs and Dolmens are

The Nature of the Monuments

Dol

The Legend of Dol

A Subterranean Dolmen Chapel

Camaret

Carnac

A Vision

The Legend of Carnac

Mont-Saint-Michel

Rocenaud

Cup-and-Ring Markings

The Gallery of Gavr’inis

The Ile aux Moines

Fairy Builders

Stones that Travel

CHAPTER III: THE FAIRIES OF BRITTANY

Broceliande

The Korrigan

The Seigneur of Nann [21]

A Goddess of Eld

The Unbroken Vow [23]

Merlin and Vivien

Merlin

The Fountain of Baranton

Bruno of La Montagne

Fairies in Folk-lore

The Lost Daughter

The Fisherman and the Fairies

Changelings

The King of the Fishes

Fairy Origins

The Margots

The Boy who Served the Fairies

CHAPTER IV: SPRITES AND DEMONS OF BRITTANY

The Nain

Crions, Courils, and Gorics

The Teurst

The Nicole

The Mourioche

The Ankou

The Youdic

CHAPTER V: WORLD-TALES IN BRITTANY

The Youth who did not Know

The Princess of Tronkolaine

The Princess Starbright

The Castle of the Sun

The Seigneur with the Horse’s Head

The Bride of Satan

The Baron of Jauioz

The Man of Honour

CHAPTER VI: BRETON FOLK-TALES

The Magic Rose

Norouas, the North-west Wind

The Foster-Brother

CHAPTER VII: POPULAR LEGENDS OF BRITTANY

The Dark Story of Gilles de Retz

Comorre the Cursed

The Legend of Ys

The Clerk of Rohan

The Lady of La Garaye

The Falcon

The Marquis of Guérande

The Châteaux of Brittany

La Roche-Jagu

Tonquédec

Clisson

Josselin

Hennebont and Largoet

Châteaubriant

Palaces of the Past

Suscino

CHAPTER VIII: HERO-TALES OF BRITTANY

Lez-Breiz, the Prop of Brittany

Morvan’s First Adventure

The Return of Morvan

The King’s Cavalier

The King’s Blackamoor

Morvan Fights the King

The Severed Head

The Ballad of Bran

Fontenelle

The Return from England

The Marriage-Girdle

The Combat of Saint-Cast

The Song of the Pilot

CHAPTER IX: THE BLACK ART AND ITS MINISTERS

Druidic Magic

Abélard and Héloïse

Nantes of the Magicians

CHAPTER X: ARTHURIAN ROMANCE IN BRITTANY

The Sword of Arthur

Tristrem and Ysonde

Tristrem as Forester

Tristrem Returns to Ermonie

The Combat with Moraunt

Fytte the Second

The Marriage Embassy

The Minstrel’s Boon

The Ordeal by Fire

Tristrem in Brittany

The Forest Lovers

The French Manuscript

The Giant of Mont-Saint-Michel

A Doubting Thomas

Arthur and the Dragon

The Isle of Avalon

CHAPTER XI: THE BRETON LAYS OF MARIE DE FRANCE

The Lay of the Were-Wolf

The Were-Wolf Superstition

The Lay of Gugemar

The Lay of Laustic

The Lay of Eliduc

The Lay of Equitan

The Lay of the Ash-Tree

The Lay of Graelent

The Lay of the Dolorous Knight

CHAPTER XII: THE SAINTS OF BRITTANY

St Barbe

How St Convoyon Stole the Relics

Tivisiau, the Shepherd Saint

St Nennocha

St Enora

Corseul the Accursed

St Keenan

St Nicholas

St Bieuzy

St Leonorius

St Patern

St Samson

Brittany’s Lawyer Saint

St Budoc of Dol

‘Fatal Children’ Legends

Miraculous Crossings

Azénor the Pale

St Pol of Léon

St Ronan

St Goezenou

St Winwaloe, or Gwenaloe

CHAPTER XIII: COSTUMES AND CUSTOMS OF BRITTANY

Hats and Hymen

Quaint Head-dresses

Religious Festivals

The Pardons

Barking Women

The Sacring Bell

The Venus of Quinipily

Holy Wells

Reliquaries

Feeding the Dead

The Passage de l’Enfer

Calvaries

Weddings

Breton Burials

Tartarus and Paradise

GLOSSARY & INDEX