Episode Details

Three more tales from Paul Sébillot's Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne (Paris, 1880), the great collection of the folk tales of Upper Brittany, in a fresh English translation made for this series from the original French.

In Saint-Cast, Agnès Depais lives beside the Houle of the fairies, and the Kindly Hand beneath her hearthstone gives her a bottle that cures, an ointment that restores her stolen cow and sheep, and a loaf that never grows less. A grass snake comes out of the hedge to eat the mowers' crumbs, and the fairy Margot's second belt is tested on an oak tree. And a little girl carries fire in her apron, fells the great oaks with a six-liard knife, and goes into the forest of Ardennes to find her seven brothers.

Told in Saint-Cast, Collinée and Trélivan, and collected by Paul Sébillot (1843–1918).

Chapters:

00:08 The Houle of La Corbière

07:59 The Grass Snake

10:35 The Girl and Her Seven Brothers

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