"LISTENER TO THE DEAD."

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14660, 8 May 1913, Page 6

"LISTENER TO THE DEAD."

The death of an old Breton woman, Corentine le Clcch, in the cemetery' ot a village near Lorient, Brittany, recalls the existence of a widely respected trade in the region—that of "listener to tho dead." The Breton folk (says the "Journal") believo that the dead watch all the acts of their descendants. The peasants never take an important decision without asking the approval of their forbeani. Thus there has grown up an occupation of interpreting to the living the wishes of the dead. Coreatino

le Clech had acted as "listener to the dead" m her village for over tuirtT years.

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