This map, created by Neil Parkinson of Púca Printhouse in 2021, showcases the monsters of France's mythology.
Among the many myths that the author recovers in this map, some of the most iconic are worth highlighting:
- Ankou, The servant of death in Breton tradition, who travels through the villages at night with his chariot collecting the souls of the dead, in Brittany.
- Gargoyle, the serpentine dragon that dwelled in the marshes on the left bank of the Seine, on the outskirts of Rouen, and which Saint Romanus, the bishop, subdued with the sign of the cross before leading it, bound, through the streets of the city, in Normandy.
- Gayant, the giant guardian of the town of Douai, whose statue has been carried in a procession every year since 1530 as a symbol of local identity, in the north.
- Mélusine, the fairy from the Poitou tradition who took the form of a snake every Saturday and whose legend links her lineage to the founding of numerous castles and noble houses in western France.
- Le Petit Homme Rouge (the little red man), the spirit who appeared to the kings of France at the Tuileries to warn them of impending misfortune, in the centre.
- Loup Garou, the werewolf of French tradition, whose presence in the rural folklore of the south-west was for centuries associated with individuals who were cursed or had made a pact with the devil, in the south-west.
- Vouivre, the great winged serpent of Franco-Countess tradition, which bears a carbuncle on its forehead in place of an eye and guards underground treasures, placing the stone on the bank when it goes to bathe and unleashing its serpents upon anyone who attempts to steal it, in the Jura.
- Tarasque, the chimerical creature with the body of a tortoise, a scaly back and the head of a lion, which ravaged the countryside around Tarascon until Saint Martha tamed it with a simple prayer, in Provence.
- Carcolh, the giant snail-like creature from the Landes, which lures its victims with its long, slimy tentacles and drags them into its cave in the south-west.
- Barbegazi, the gnomes with enormous feet that act as snowshoes, typical of the Alpine tradition of the Dauphiné and Savoy, who help lost shepherds and warn of avalanches with their whistles in the Alps.
Many of the myths depicted are typical of a much wider region than the one in which they are located on the map.
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