Chapter Xiii. Costumes And Customs Of Brittany : p. 372 CHAPTER XIII: COSTUMES AND CUSTOMS OF BRITTANY DISTINCTIVE national costume has to a great extent become a thing of the past in Europe, and for this relinquishment of the picturesque we have doubtless in a measure to thank the exploitation of remote districts as tourist and sporting centres...
Illustrations : p. 11 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE GRAELENT AND THE FAIRY-WOMAN Frontispiece NOMENO 24 THE DEATH OF MARGUERITE IN THE CASTLE OF TROGOFF 34 RAISING A MENHIR 44 THE SEIGNEUR OF NANN AND THE KORRIGAN 58 MERLIN AND VIVIEN 66 THE FAIRIES OF BROCELIANDE FIND THE LITTLE BRUNO 72 FAIRIES IN A BRETON 'HOULE' 80...
Chapter Viii. Hero Tales Of Brittany : p. 211 CHAPTER VIII: HERO-TALES OF BRITTANY SOON after the Vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu published his "Barzaz-Breiz", a collection of popular ballads from the Breton, critics who possessed a knowledge of the language and were acquainted with its literature exposed the true nature of the work...
Chapter Ix. The Black Art And Its Ministers : p. 241 CHAPTER IX: THE BLACK ART AND ITS MINISTERS SORCERY is a very present power in most isolated communities, and in the civilized portions of Brittany it is but a thing of yesterday, while in the more secluded departments it is very much a thing of to-day. The old folk can recall the time when...
Chapter Vi. Sprites And Demons Of Brittany : p. 96 CHAPTER IV: SPRITES AND DEMONS OF BRITTANY THE idea of the evil spirit, malicious and revengeful, is common to all primitive peoples, and Brittany has its full share of demonology. Wherever, in fact, a primitive and illiterate peasantry is found the demon is its inevitable accompaniment. But...
Chapter Xii. The Saints Of Brittany : p. 332 CHAPTER XII: THE SAINTS OF BRITTANY AN important department in Breton folk-lore is the hagiology of the province--the legendary lore of its saints. This, indeed, holds almost as much of the marvellous as its folk-tales, ballads, and historical legends, and in perusing the tales...
Chapter X. Arthurian Romance In Brittany : p. 254 CHAPTER X: ARTHURIAN ROMANCE IN BRITTANY FIERCE and prolonged has been the debate as to the original birthplace of Arthurian legend, authorities of the first rank, the 'Senior Wranglers' of the study, as Nutt has called them, hotly advancing the several claims of Wales, England, Scotl...
Title Page : p. 3 LEGENDS & ROMANCES OF BRITTANY BY LEWIS SPENCE F.R.A.I. AUTHOR OF "HERO TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE RHINE" "A DICTIONARY OF MEDIEVAL ROMANCE AND ROMANCE WRITERS" "THE MYTHS OF MEXICO AND PERU" ETC. ETC. WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. OTWAY CANNELL A.R.C.A.(LOND.) NEW YORK FREDERICK...
Chapter I. The Land, The People And Their Story : p. 13 CHAPTER I: THE LAND, THE PEOPLE AND THEIR STORY THE romantic region which we are about to traverse in search of the treasures of legend was in ancient times known as Armorica, a Latinized form of the Celtic name, Armor ('On the Sea'). The Brittany of to-day corresponds to the departments...
Untitled : LEGENDS AND ROMANCES OF BRITTANY BY LEWIS SPENCE [1917] This is a popularized treatment of the folklore of Brittany, the Celtic region on the north-western coast of France, Spence, who wrote a number of other books in this series, recounts tales of knights, kings and saints, some more or less...
Preface : p. 5 PREFACE ALTHOUGH the folk-tales and legends of Brittany have received ample attention from native scholars and collectors, they have not as yet been presented in a popular manner to English-speaking readers. The probable reasons for what would appear to be an otherwise incomprehensible...
Chapter Vii. Popular Legends Of Brittany : p. 173 CHAPTER VII: POPULAR LEGENDS OF BRITTANY "THE legend," says Gomme, in a passage most memorable for students of folk-lore as containing his acute and precise definition of the several classes of tradition, "belongs to an historical personage, locality, or event," 1 and it is in this general...
Chapter Xi. The Breton Lays Of Marie De France : p. 283 CHAPTER XI: THE BRETON LAYS OF MARIE DE FRANCE THE wonderful "Lais" of Marie de France must ever hold a deep interest for all students of Breton lore, for though cast in the literary mould of Norman-French and breathing the spirit of Norman chivalry those of them which deal with Brittany...
Chapter Iii. The Fairies Of Brittany : p. 54 CHAPTER III: THE FAIRIES OF BRITTANY WHATEVER the origin of the race which conceived the demonology of Brittany--and there are indications that it was not wholly Celtic--that weird province of Fary bears unmistakable evidence of having been deeply impressed by the Celtic imagination, if it...
Chapter Vi. Breton Folk Tales : p. 156 CHAPTER VI: BRETON FOLK-TALES THE stories told here under the title of 'folktales' are such as do not partake so much of the universal element which enters so largely into Breton romance, but those which have a more national or even local tinge and are yet not legendary. The homely flavour...
Chapter Ii. Menhirs And Dolmens : p. 37 CHAPTER II: MENHIRS AND DOLMENS IN the mind of the general reader Brittany is unalterably associated with the prehistoric stone monuments which are so closely identified with its folk-lore and national life. In other parts of the world similar monuments are encountered in Great Brit...
Chapter V. World Tales In Brittany : p. 106 CHAPTER V: WORLD-TALES IN BRITTANY I HAVE entitled this chapter 'World-Tales' to indicate that the stories it contains are in plot or "motif" if not in substance common to the whole world--that, in short, although they are found in Brittany, they are no more Breton than Italian, Russi...
