Magic of Brittany - Volume 2

Famous and even classic works, Le Gardien du feu, Le Sang de la Sirène,

Âmes d'Occident express the Breton imagination through short stories and tales. But it also flourishes in genres - songs, theatre, mysteries - destined for fragile survival due to the absence of printed support.

They would have disappeared if Anatole Le Braz had not preserved their memory in Chansons populaires de la Basse-Bretagne, Le Théâtre celtique, Cognomerus et Sainte Tréfine.

Inaccessible for fifty years, these monumental works find a second life here.

Every culture has a setting as its jewel box.... its rustic poetry unfolds in Croquis de Bretagne et d'ailleurs, Iles bretonnes, Vieilles Chapelles de Bretagne, La Terre du passé: four invitations to read... and to travel.
François Lacassin

📖 The opinion of the Librairie du Grimoire Ancien

By our editorial and library committee

Anatole Le Braz (1859-1926), nicknamed the "bard of Brittany", dedicated his life to saving the treasures of Celtic imagination from oblivion. This second volume of Magies de la Bretagne, published by Robert Laffont and presented by François Lacassin, brings together monumental works that have been inaccessible for fifty years.

What makes this collection so invaluable is its role as a guardian of memory: without Le Braz, the popular songs of Lower Brittany, Celtic theatre, mysteries like Cognomerus and Sainte Tréfine would have disappeared, "destined for fragile survival due to the absence of printed support". Le Braz preserved these oral forms of the Breton imagination for eternity.

The volume combines classic narrative works (Le Gardien du feu, Le Sang de la Sirène, Âmes d'Occident) and poetic texts that unfold Brittany's "rustic poetry": Croquis de Bretagne, Iles bretonnes, Vieilles Chapelles de Bretagne, La Terre du passé. Each text is an invitation to journey into a magical and sacred Brittany.

We recommend this volume to lovers of Celtic traditions, researchers of the Breton imagination, and all those who wish to preserve and honor ancient wisdoms. An essential literary and spiritual treasure.

Our rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — A monumental collection that saves the treasures of the Celtic Breton imagination from oblivion.