A Devolution of Terror

A Devolution of Terror

An account of the ancient superstitions in the Alpilles in Provence, and their ongoing presence in traditional story and ritual

“King René of Anjou, the laughter-loving Count of Provence, seeking to divert the melancholy of his beloved wife, Jeanne de Laval, turned the old-time-Keltic terror into gay new fetes: the games of the tarasque. These games are still played. The tarasque—a monster of wood and canvas….now goes through the sunny streets of Tarascon….”

Prose by Catharine A. Janvier

Headpiece by Nellie Baxter

Patrick Geddes & Colleagues

Winter 1896-1897

Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections

Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.

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13 Nov 2017, ljk
3 January 2023, rb

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