_'Corrigans' at Church._--'In former times a young girl having taken the
keys of the church (presumably at Carnac) and having entered it, found
the _corrigans_ about to dance; and the _corrigans_ were singing,
"_Lundi, Mardi_" (Monday, Tuesday). On seeing the young girl, they
stopped, surrounded her, and invited her to dance with them. She
accepted, and, in singing, added to their song "_Mercredi_" (Wednesday).
In amazement, the _corrigans_ cried joyfully, "She has added something
to our song; what shall we give her as recompense?" And they gave her a
bracelet. A friend of hers meeting her, asked where the fine bracelet
came from; and the young girl told what had happened. The second girl
hurried to the church, and found the _corrigans_ still dancing the
_rond_. She joined their dance, and, in singing, added "_Jeudi_"
(Thursday) to their song; but that broke the cadence; and the
_corrigans_ in fury, instead of recompensing her wished to punish her.
"What shall we do to her?" one of them cried. "Let the day be as night
to her!" the others replied. And by day, wherever she went, she saw only
the night.'
_The 'Corrigans'' Sabbath._--'Where my grandfather lived,' continued
Madame Le Rouzic, 'there was a young girl who went to the sabbath of the
_corrigans_; and when she returned and was asked where she had been,
said, "I have travelled over water, wood, and hedges." And she related
all she had seen and heard. Then one night, afterwards, the _corrigans_
came into the house, beat her, and dragged her from bed. Upon hearing
the uproar, my grandfather arose and found the girl lying flat on the
stone floor. "Never question me again," she said to him, "or they will
kill me."'[97]
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