Picturesque Brittany (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Picturesque Brittany One of the most noteworthy results of this continuity of faithfulness to a Single dominating idea, under many different forms, is that Brittany is exceptionally rich in relics reflecting the evolution of the religious belief of its people, from pre-historic monuments supposed to be contemporaneous with Stonehenge, to wayside calvaries and shrines, some of the latter being actually built on to the former, popular imagination having welded into one pagan and Christian legend. To the student of folk-lore, therefore, as well as to the archaologist, the historian and the artist, this land of many memories offers an inexhaust ible field, and even at this late day startling surprises may still await the student who has the patience to unravel the tangled web of local tradition and to trace to their original source the various strands of which it is composed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.