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Brittany - The Ile de Croix fée who cured a man of leprosy
Identifier
014024
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
L'ile de Sainte Croix par Champlain
A description of the experience
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911]
Throughout the Morbihan and Finistère, I found that stories about fée, are much less common than about corrigans, and in some localities extremely rare; but the ones I have been fortunate enough to collect are much the same in character as those gathered in the Côtes-du-Nord by Luzel, and elsewhere by other collectors, Those I here record were told to me at Carnac during the summer of 1909; the first one by M. Yvonne Daniel, a native of the Île de Croix (off the coast north-west of Carnac);
'The little Île de Croix was especially famous for its old fées; and the following legend is still believed by its oldest inhabitants:--
"An aged man who had suffered long from leprosy was certain to die within a short time, when a woman bent double with age entered his house. She asked from what malady he suffered, and on being informed began to say prayers. Then she breathed upon the sores of the leper, and almost suddenly disappeared: the fée had cured him."