These eight tales of mystery and the supernatural feature sorcerers, the Grim Reaper in a horse-drawn coach, a beguiling bird of death, a long-dead saint turned devil, and a whole retinue of creatures of the night. Claude Seignolle, distinguished French ethnographer and folklorist and author of more than twenty-three volumes of short stories and novels, is a master of the “rustic” tale, which depicts folklore and popular traditions of the French countryside. He incarnates Satan as an entity sharing human traits, an evil spirit who identifies himself with human suffering. Seignolle’s Gothic stories are not meant merely to terrorize, however; they are intended to revive an oral tradition in danger of becoming extinct. These vignettes, selected and translated into English by Eric H. Deudon, are charged with poetry and mystery; as Lawrence Durrell notes in his foreword, they are strong, truthful, and intense. Seignolle brings to life the wealth of popular legend; by intertwining the boundaries of the real and the supernatural, he reveals that the least conspicuous or most ordinary objects of everyday life can possess unexpected and formidable dimensions. Claude Seignolle’s fiction works have been translated into eight languages and adapted for both theater and cinema. These stories will delight anyone who enjoys Gothic tales and the enchanted territory of the fantastic.

The Nightcharmer and Other Tales of Claude Seignolle

Literature & Fiction

Seignolle, Claude

Contemporary

Texas A&M University Press

These eight tales of mystery and the supernatural feature sorcerers, the Grim Reaper in a horse-drawn coach, a beguiling bird of death, a long-dead saint turned devil, and a whole retinue of creatures of the night. Claude Seignolle, distinguished French ethnographer and folklorist and author of more than twenty-three volumes of short stories and novels, is a master of the “rustic” tale, which depicts folklore and popular traditions of the French countryside. He incarnates Satan as an entity sharing human traits, an evil spirit who identifies himself with human suffering. Seignolle’s Gothic stories are not meant merely to terrorize, however; they are intended to revive an oral tradition in danger of becoming extinct.These vignettes, selected and translated into English by Eric H. Deudon, are charged with poetry and mystery; as Lawrence Durrell notes in his foreword, they are strong, truthful, and intense. Seignolle brings to life the wealth of popular legend; by intertwining the boundaries of the real and the supernatural, he reveals that the least conspicuous or most ordinary objects of everyday life can possess unexpected and formidable dimensions.Claude Seignolle’s fiction works have been translated into eight languages and adapted for both theater and cinema. These stories will delight anyone who enjoys Gothic tales and the enchanted territory of the fantastic.

Nightcharmer and Other Tales of Claude Seignolle

Claude Seignolle s'est attaché au point de vue de l'homme de la France des campagnes. En vingt-cinq ans d'enquêtes sur le terrain, il a traqué l'image du Diable conservée par l'imagination populaire, celle d'un personnage terrifiant et familier obstruant souvent la vie des simples gens et auquel on ne peut éviter de payer tribut, quitte à marchander les moins mauvaises conditions possibles. Catalogue exhaustif des ruses et déguisements du Malin et de ses suppôts, et manuel de recettes pour se prémunir contre le mauvais sort, Les Évangiles du Diable forment la somme la plus complète à ce jour sur la présence de l'esprit du Mal dans la France profonde. Capital sur le plan ethnographique, son livre constitue sur le plan littéraire les Mille et Une Nuits de la légende du Diable.

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Religion & Spirituality

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Occult & Paranormal

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