#gascony fairy tales

[cadmusfly]

i may have attempted to lightly research gascony folk tales just so that i can work out what folklore Lannes, Murat and Bessieres would be familiar with and might casually reference

For a more general cultural context there's a lot of Roman referencing going on, and also The Matter of France/Charlemagne's Paladins would be a touchstone, I've referenced Gargantua and Pantagruel in Night at the Marshalate, but since fairytales and folklore is a lifelong interest of mine, I took a uni class or two on them and stuff, and I'm curious about more folkloric word of mouth kind of stories

so far I have come across Leg

the devil getting owned

a series of posts by some french naval officer who is translating gascony fairy tales as penance for plagiarism - the walking ship (1), the two twins (1), i do want to dig into this - the folklore thing not the uh other stuff - seems to be translated from french wikisource

There's some academic stuff going on that I haven't dug into - Women and Text in Gascon Tall Tales, some books which I don't think I'll have time to read

Going to tag some others who write or have written about about Gascon guys - @phatburd, @joachimnapoleon, @josefavomjaaga, @maggiec70 - whether you're interested in folkloric context or if you know anything interesting about the kind of folklore and fairy tales that the marshals might be familiar with! If not, disregard this post, but I'm just curious!

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