#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: A story from #Brittany „relates that, after a long absence, a lord returned to his castle with a beautiful young woman whom he had married in a distant land. She always wore dresses so long that no one, not even her husband, had seen her feet. Indeed, it was only after having sworn never to look at them that he was able to become her husband. They lived happily until one day he scattered some ash on the floor of their bed chamber. The instant she entered the room, her husband saw the imprint of crow’s feet on the ash. Carried away by anger and pain, the lady, a most powerful fairy, cursed the lord and his lands; the castle sank into the earth with all its inhabitants and was covered by water. The site it once occupied now forms a lake whose depth no one has yet been able to fathom.“ https://bonjourfrombrittany.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/the-fairies-of-the-swells/
What a #discovery! Quelle #découverte! Noir Désir, Le vent nous portera. #Music#Video#Musique#Clip. Magnifique. Reminds me of a spectacular time spent with my mother on #Breton beaches back in ‘73 as my father worked in the #archives. Magnifique! Those days ended in the light not the dark! #Brittany
31 Dec 1491: b Jacques Cartier at St Malo #Brittany - who would in 1534 make his first voyage across the #Atlantic to what is now called #Canada in a bid to find the passage to #China#otd
#StandingStoneSunday
FR : allée couverte de Lesconil à Poullan sur Mer #Bretagne surnommée la maison des Korrigans « Ti ar C’horriged ». Il s’agit d’un tombeau collectif où les corps étaient disposés, voire entassés.
EN : Lesconil covered alley in Poullan sur Mer in #Brittany, nicknamed the house of the Korrigans "Ti ar C'horriged". It's a collective tomb where bodies were laid out, or even piled up. #pinthttps://finistere.en-photo.fr/megalithe
Storm #Ciaran did a bit of damage in my mum's garden. We'll need a chainsaw to deal with the bigger branches but at least no tree got fully uprooted. #Brittany#Brest
The fachan (athach) is a #Scottish folkloric figure. This one-legged, one-eyed monster haunted the wilder districts of #Scotland. In its one hand, which grew from its chest, it held a flail covered with iron apples, with which it struck out at passersby while hopping about on its single leg.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
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RT @oldweirdbritain #Fachan = ugly Scottish fairy with a single hard hairy hand emerging from its chest, one veiny thick-soled leg, and a tuft of coarse hair.
#Celtic#FolkloreSunday: In #Breton beliefs, the #Bugul Noz ("Night Shepherd") is a fairy spirit who lives in the woodlands of #Brittany. He is the last of his kind and is said to be incredibly ugly, which causes him distress. His appearance is so awful that even woodland animals avoid him, and he sometimes cries out to warn humans of his approach, so that he won't frighten them. Though not malicious (indeed, rather kind and gentle), he is always alone because of his hideous visage.
In Anatole Le Braz` mention the Bugul Noz seems less frightening in appearance. Rather than being a spirit to be feared he might, "fulfill a beneficial office, in warning human beings, by his coming that night is not made for lingering in the fields or on the roads, but for shutting oneself in behind closed doors and going to sleep. This shepherd of the shades would then be, take it altogether, a kind of good shepherd. It is to ensure our rest and safety, to withdraw us from excesses of toil and the snares of night, that he compels us, thoughtless sheep, to return quickly to the fold." https://twitter.com/FinnFolklorist/status/1665342644967419906
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugul Noz
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree (Craobh-Oir agus Craobh-Airgid): a Gaelic tale from Scotland. A king had a wife, Silver-Tree, and a daughter, Gold-Tree. One day they walked by a pond, and Silver-Tree asked a trout if she were the most beautiful queen in the world. #FairyTaleTuesday