The Log
Documented entries on the folklore of Normandy and Brittany — spirits, customs, landscape, the dead, plants with purposes, and words that carry weight.
La Vouivre Normande: the serpent nobody describes the same way twice
In the Bocage Normand, the vouivre is not a dragon. It is something more specific — and the disagreement about what it looks like is itself the point.
The dead of the crossroads: what Norman tradition actually says
Crossroad burial, crossroad avoidance, crossroad offering — three distinct practices blurred into one vague idea about haunted junctions.
Korrigans of Brittany: the word is doing a lot of work
The korrigan is not one thing. Sorting through what Breton sources actually say — and where the Romantics distorted the record.
The White Ladies of Avranches: what the local records say
The Dames Blanches of the Manche are not the same as those of the Haute-Normandie. A note on regional variation and what gets lost when we flatten folklore.
Salt marsh spirits: the folklore of the marais around Mont-Saint-Michel
Before the causeway was built, the approach to the Mont was actively dangerous at most tides. The landscape produced the stories, not the other way around.