#french foklore

[luci-lle-e]

In the south-west of France, the herb called “morsus diaboli", harvested on the eve of St. Peter's Day, on an empty stomach, and before sunrise, laid for a day on the sacred stone of the altar, then dried in the shade, finally reduced to powder and carried in the gusset, happened to be a powerful good luck charm.

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P.Sebillot, ibid, p143.

[reno-matagot]

The Gospels Of the Devil

FIRST BLAZE

The imprint that cannot be erased

''If we try to hide with stones the imprint left on the moor of Clairay (Ille-et-Vilaine) by the foot of the black horse given by the Devil to the Lord of Changé, they disappear the next night.' '

''At the sudden call of someone, at the unexpected contact of something, do you instinctively jump? It is because death, which had just fallen upon you, leaves you to take possession of another.''

The Gospels of the Devil ~ Claude Seignolle