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Dunstan Times, Issue 3139, 16 October 1922, Page 8

The i n tin hi t;i lit s of tin • little Alpine village of C’laro. in t lie Canton of ! essin. (i mi I \ believe that devils Ini' e taken up their residence on a peak ol tile Alps mi lin’d, IVyerotto, ;t( )00 feet above tin' village. Tin slieplierds and eon 'herds refuse to make I lie ascent with then Docks and herds, declaring that many of them have been injured hv stem’s rolled down on I,hem le. invisible devils. Several gendarmes and a priest, were sent to the summit recently. No devils were found, hut the priest blessed the mountain in order to scare away any devils who might he in hiding. The slieplierds and cowherds are still tim’d. Thev keep their flocks on i he lower slopes so that thev can make a hasty retreat to the village it the dev 1 1 si again attack them. In some parts ol Brittany a curious marriage custom prevails. On certain lele dav s I lie marriageable girls appear in red petticoats, with white or yellow borders round them. The number of borders denotes the portion the father is willing to give his daughter. Kadi white hand denotes It Ml francs a veav : each vellow hand represents 1.0(10 francs a vear.