folk-tale

THE MAN WITH TWO DOGS The purification. Jean's sister returned to consult the witch again. "I don't know what power protects him&q...

THE GIANT GOULAFFRE The seven-league boots. The giant, roaring with anger, then took his seven-league boots and set out in pursuit of t...

THE GIANT GOULAFFRE The Giant Goulaffre. Allanic and Fistilou were very sad, looked at each other with big eyes, and did not eat. "...

THE GIANT GOULAFFRE The castle of Goulaffre. "Stand against the door", said Fistilou to Allanic, "I will climb on your s...

THE GIANT GOULAFFRE On the town's square. Towards the evening, they arrived in a town whose name I did not remember. They soon found th...

THE GIANT GOULAFFRE The bread seekers. There once was a poor woman widow with a son. Every day, the mother and her son went begging fro...

GOD'S WILL The porridge. Saint Thomas said: "Will you serve us some porridge, if you make some?" "How! If we do!" s...

GOD'S WILL The traveling saints. The two saints continued on their way. At the entrance to a village, they were moved by groans coming ...

GOD'S WILL The traveling saints. In the happy times when the greatest saints of paradise still enjoyed visiting Lower Brittany, Saint T...

THE GIANT HOK-BRAS The construction of the Noah's Ark. Hok-Bras could not shout: enough! enough! to return to his natural size; and bes...

THE GIANT HOK-BRAS The three-deck ship. Since that time, it is said that Landerneau has preserved his aunt the moon and its immortal li...

THE GIANT HOK-BRAS The moon of Landerneau. Finally, Hok-Bras' feet touched the bottom of the abyss. "Godmother, he said, I feel a ...

THE GIANT HOK-BRAS The roadstead of Brest. When the roadstead of Brest was only a small stream where the sea barely rose during high ti...

TRÉMEUR OR THE HEADLESS MAN Head lost. In the meantime, my son, come in here, and let's talk a little. "You're joking, my godfathe...

TRÉMEUR OR THE HEADLESS MAN New meeting with Saint Herbot. Trémeur therefore entered the cabaret, and, with a thick tongue, as expected...

TRÉMEUR OR THE HEADLESS MAN The devil's daughter. The fact remains that an hour later, Trémeur returned to the forest, towards the plac...

TRÉMEUR OR THE HEADLESS MAN The ogre's manor. Trémeur, it is said, had great adventures. As he loved war, he killed several giants, ogr...

TRÉMEUR OR THE HEADLESS MAN Trémeur and saint Herbot. It must have been quite funny, all the same, to see a headless man walking! I mus...

TRÉMEUR OR THE HEADLESS MAN The stone table. Source There was once, near Plouguer, there, on the edge of the Aulne river, below Carhaix...

THE ADVENTURES OF MR. TAM-KIK The punishment Source Before we finish, let's go and see what became of our Tam-Kik, with his fly. Tired o...

THE ADVENTURES OF MR. TAM-KIK The Rounfl Source Tam-Kik felt a stirring in his pocket and heard a little voice saying: "Open quick...

THE ADVENTURES OF MR. TAM-KIK The Rounfl Source "Goustadik, goustadik (gently)", my little lambs, said Tam to the two big dog...

THE ADVENTURES OF MR. TAM-KIK The beggar Source It was winter, it was snowing, and it was freezing to the core. Near Clohars, Jalm met ...

THE ADVENTURES OF MR. TAM-KIK The benediction Source So Mr. Tam-Kik asked for his account from his good father, who was almost seventy-...

THE RECTEUR'S TESTAMENT In Brittany the main priest in a parish is called the "recteur", not the "curé" as in most re...

THE RECTEUR'S TESTAMENT In Brittany the main priest in a parish is called the "recteur", not the "curé" as in most re...

THE STONES OF PLOUHINEC Crushed Source "A Christian had to lose his life to assure me of these riches, and your bad angel put you ...

THE STONES OF PLOUHINEC Waiting Source Bernèz kept his word and arrived at the agreed place an hour before midnight. He found the begga...

THE STONES OF PLOUHINEC The cross Source Then the beggar fell asleep, and the next day, at daybreak, he was in the field looking for th...

THE STONES OF PLOUHINEC In the stable Source He was a beggar from Pluvigner who never entered churches, and of whom honest people were ...