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CONTENTS

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IThe Land, the People and their Story[13]
IIMenhirs And Dolmens[37]
IIIThe Fairies of Brittany[54]
IVSprites And Demons of Brittany[96]
VWorld-Tales in Brittany[106]
VIBreton Folk-Tales[156]
VIIPopular Legends of Brittany[173]
VIIIHero-Tales of Brittany[211]
IXThe Black Art and Its Ministers[241]
XArthurian Romance in Brittany[254]
XIThe Breton Lays of Marie De France[283]
XIIThe Saints of Brittany[332]
XIIICostumes and Customs of Brittany[372]
Footnotes[391]
Glossary and Index[392]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Graelent and the Fairy-Woman[Frontispiece]
Nomenoë[23]
The Death of Marguerite in the Castle of Trogoff[34]
Raising a Menhir[44]
The Seigneur of Nann And the Korrigan[58]
Merlin And Vivien[66]
The Fairies of Broceliande Find the Little Bruno[72]
Fairies in a Breton ‘Houle’[81]
The Poor Boy And the Three Fairy Damsels[88]
The Demon-Dog[102]
N’Oun Doare And the Princess Golden Bell[112]
The Bride of Satan[144]
Gwennolaïk and Nola[170]
The Devil in the Form of a Leopard appears before the Alchemist[179]
The Escape of King Gradlon from the Flooded City of Ys[186]
A Peasant Insurrection[197]
Morvan returns to his Ruined Home[214]
The Finding of Silvestik[232]
Héloïse as Sorceress[250]
King Arthur and Merlin at the Lake[257]
Tristrem and Ysonde[268]
King Arthur and the Giant of Mont-Saint-Michel[276]
The Were-Wolf[288]
Gugemar comes upon the Magic Ship[294]
Gugemar’s Assault on the Castle of Meriadus[300]
Eliduc carries Guillardun to the Forest Chapel[312]
Convoyon and his Monks carry off the Relics of St Apothemius[336]
St Tivisiau, the Shepherd Saint[339]
St Yves instructing Shepherd-boys in the Use of the Rosary[352]
Queen Queban stoned to Death[369]
Modern Brittany[377]
The Souls of the Dead[385]

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