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Ankou: The Complete Legend of Brittany’s Graveyard Watchman | Breton Folklore for Sleep
Ankou: The Complete Legend of Brittany’s Graveyard Watchman | Breton Folklore for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of the Ankou, made for falling asleep to.
Brittany has its own figure of death, and he is not a god or a demon or a punishment. He has a job, and the job rotates.
In most tellings, the last person to die in a parish in a given year becomes the Ankou for the year that follows. That’s the detail that sets him apart from anything else in European folklore — it isn’t a monster, it’s a neighbour, someone who was alive last winter and is now doing the work. He goes out at night with a…
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