Arcadia Discussion Zone

Well that is the Stone of the Faerie. These people even today despite their seemingly outward allegiance to the Catholic faith still believe that faeries occupy these stones and circles. They will not violate them.

As Gaston Jourdanne noticed in 1900 in his Contribution to the Folklore of the Aude (when Sauniere was at the height of his influence):

“In the Aude, the peasants rather believe in the malignant spirit, the fairies and the underground geniuses than with the Virgin and the Angels”

They still do.

In the village of Vals they celebrate Samhain openly and with the approval of the village priest.

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With Raymond FERAUD the poet, the dolmen became the weeting place for steril women where fairy Estérelle made fertils with the help of a secret potion.

François PERROT the archaeologist related the beautiful love story in which a young Lord (a genie) fell in love with a shepherdess (a fairy). The latter with her magic wand raised this altar stone in front of which both gave up the ghost after their marriage.

Dr CAVALIER wrote that at Fréjus lived Count Armand, father of Rosilde. The latter was seduced by Vilfrid, one of her father's pages. Both ran away from Draguignan where they spent the night by a dreadful storm. A fairy touched by the couple distress, raised with her magic wand the dolmen in order to shetter them.
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Thanks Roscoe very much