DROUILLET (Jean). - Lot 226

DROUILLET (Jean). Folklore du Nivernais et du Morvan à la Charité sur Loire, chez Thoreaupuis chez Bernardat from 1959 to 1974. 7 paperback volumes presenting Jean Drouillet's complete study of Nivernais and Morvan folklore. Table of contents for this reference work: I. general introduction, ages of life, traditional calendar, cult of saints and brotherhoods; II: house and domestic life, traditional cuisine, peasant life, legal and social folklore, trades; III: popular arts, pottery, earthenware, costumes, toys, games, entertainment, local dances; IV: fantastical beings, fairies, will-o'-the-wisps, devils, witchcraft, sorcerers, folk medicine; V: astronomy and meteorology, fauna, flora, land and water; VI: folk tales, legends, sayings, swearwords; VII: folk song, language, notes and documents for the 7 volumes. Beautiful set, rare in these first editions.