BRETON LEGENDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 165, 15 July 1938, Page 13

BRETON LEGENDS.

STORIES FROM PAST.

A FAIRY-BUILT WALL. PARIS. Wherever you find a Celt there you will find a legend, and Brittany is* no exception to the rule. On the contrary, here every village, every crossroads seem,? to have it-> own particular legtnd or stock of strange stories of the supernatural. In the environs, of Josselin. where there is one of the most magnificent castles of Brittany, the land is left untouched during- Holy Week, for during that time it is believed that the earth blaeds and suffers if iron is thrust into it. The inhabitants of Reguiny. on All Souls' Day. make the evening meal of Thpstnwte. They believe that as many chestnuts as they eat so manv souls escape from purgatory. Brittany, like Ireland, has it« "little people," and there often rivalry between them. Where the railway crosses a stream at Villejypuquaie a line _of huge boulders stretches over the countryside like cyclopean foundations of a gipnntic peasants have an explanation for thiV strange line of stones. Thejrtell you thai the elvrw of Bezon taimbed .-.the fairies for their weak bodies..- The fairies determined to give them a Teflon. «*nd one day the scoffing elves. wer# astounded to see the fairies in a •lorij'line, each staggering beneath the load of an enormoiw stone. They set 4he stone* one upon the other in "a line, and there they lie to-dav to confound all those who do not believe that fairies can be as strong ee elves.