I have written previously about attitudes to death in yesterday’s Brittany and the superstitions that surrounded that inescapable event. This post looks at how the reality of death was long treated in the Breton countryside; each family may have carried its own private traditions but there are enough areas of common ground, recorded in accounts written in the 19th and early 20th centuries, for us to reconstruct how yesterday’s Bretons typically dealt with the death of a loved one.
Dealing with Death in Brittany
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