Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices by Lecouteux Claude

Author:Lecouteux, Claude [Lecouteux, Claude]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Spirituality/Paganism
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2015-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

because that’s the boundary of Galvoie

That knights cannot pass

And ever return again. (6602–4)

The boundary marker therefore signifies, to some extent, the beginning of a journey of no return. In the Second Continuation of the Story of the Grail, a “pillar” appears that causes death by a melancholic illness in whoever dares approach too near, one means of indicating that to do this is a sacrilege (31583ff). A Christianized standing stone is also mentioned: on Mount Dolorous there stands a pillar—the word denotes a standing stone—that Merlin placed there at an earlier time. It is surrounded by fifteen crosses, and an anemi, meaning a demon, is imprisoned inside it. If anyone asks it: “Who is there?” he will lose his memory and go mad, no matter how wise and shrewd he was before (963ff).

In the Anglo-Norman romance Gui de Warewic (Guy of Warwick), written between 1232 and 1242, an estrange et faé*15 land called “Ardenne le Grant” appears (12223ff).3 A fairy knight dwells in this forest around which he had placed enchanted and deadly boundaries. Whoever crosses these borders never returns (ja mais arere ne repairast; 12242). Friends of the Muntaigne have gone beyond them and disappeared. Raimbrun, son of Guy, sets off to learn what became of them. He makes his way to the forest, passes by the mercs periluus, and afterward reaches a mountain where doors stand open before him. After making the sign of the cross he goes through them. The doors shut behind him and he walks half a league in the darkness where he spies a light and makes his way to a river bordering a moor. This moor surrounds a magnificent castle where time has been suspended:

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