by Jean Markale · OUEST FRANCE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782737326714
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«Contes populaires de toutes les Bretagne» is Jean Markale's collection of folk tales, published by Ouest-France in paperback (330 pages).
A compilation of fifty Breton folk tales passed down by word of mouth for generations. Jean Markale gathers and adapts them, revealing a rural and seafaring culture with wondrous worlds of oral tradition: the White Lady of Trécesson, the Korrigan's nut, and the Devil looking for a trade appear, among other spine-tingling stories.
Work in French published on 10 March 2000.
For readers interested in Breton folklore and oral storytelling.
Jean Markale was the pen name of Jean Bertrand, a French historian, writer, poet, radio show host, lecturer and high school French teacher who lived in Brittany. As a former specialist in Celtic studies at the Sorbonne, he researched pre-Christian and medieval culture and spirituality. He published numerous books about Celtic civilization, particularly the place of women in Celtic culture, and Arthurian literature.
