Légendes rustiques by George Sand
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"Légendes rustiques" by George Sand is a collection of folk legends published in 1858. This anthology preserves the rural folklore of Berry, France, gathering twelve tales of supernatural beings and beliefs from the French countryside. Sand documents spectral washerwomen, mysterious stone monuments, shape-shifting beasts, will-o'-the-wisps, and phantom monks that haunted the peasant imagination. Each legend explores the enchanted world where villagers encountered fairies, sorcerers, werewolves, and restless spirits. Illustrated by her son
Maurice Sand, the collection captures vanishing oral traditions before they disappeared from rural memory. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Sand, George, 1804-1876 |
|---|---|
| Title | Légendes rustiques |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gendes_rustiques |
| Credits | Produced by Carlo Traverso, Eric Vautier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at DP-EU. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Legends -- France |
| Subject | Folklore -- France |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 17911 |
| Release Date | Mar 4, 2006 |
| Last Update | Mar 9, 2006 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 353 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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