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LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE
Tus Examrver is indebted to Sir James M. Lemoyne, K.M. G, late President of the Royal Socrety of Canada, for advance copy of a volume of Canalian folk-lore of exceptional interest which be is bringing
out under the above title, 203 pages 2m.
Svo. Sir James, as our readers are aware, is the only writer of the Dominion on whom Her Majesty bas conferred the
honor of knighthood for industrious and
sacceseful literary labour in the domain of Canadian annals, He stands at the bead of the earnest band of workers who have been, and are, doing ina measure for the Dominion what Sir Walter Scott did for Scotland ia making its people bet - teracquainted with the salient snd rom- antic points of its history and traditions. The neatly got-ap volume before us had its igsue on somewhat unusual lines ; fora note from the distinguished author men- tions that failing to nego iate with an En-~ glish-epeaking publisher in Qu bec he
confided it to French printers to bring out in Evglish on French press,Mr. Ed. Mar- coti’s without the advantage of an English proof reader, notwitistanding gwhich it appears with as few typhographical errors as if from an Eng?ish office of publication. lt is intended to forma complement to the author’s already popular series of six issues of “ Maple Leaves, ”
The collection is said to owe its origin to legends of our French brothers, picked up by Jonathan Oldbeck, (Sir J, M. I,.) in course of pleasant cruises in the Lower St. Lawrence on boardthe swift winged yacht Hironde)ie. There are thirty egends in ali, but these are embedded in a mosaic of graphic and graceful wordpaint- ing, illusions to features of old and roman- \ic scenes gone by, wita glimpses of sport aod adventure, all related in cheery atier- dinner gossip. As isi evitable in all nar~ ration of popular belief based on the super- natural, the Spirit of the Dark, the Origin of vil, she Deyil, in short, is a‘prominent face tor. An old writer expresses an opinion that “ the devil is an ass,” and poets have told us that “the Prince of Darkness is @ gentleman ”—for the two characters are not incompatible-—-aod a very potent one, but surely a very incoasequent one, else be would not have c ndes eaded iu the capacity of afiery blackdraft horse, to haul stone for underpioniag achurch, as we learn from these legends he did, ner have masqueraded as » hermit at St. Ber- uabe, nor when an exasperated woman whose timber lands bad been harried to make charcoal bequeathed her property to the devil, administered to the estace, and ierrified by booting like au owl everyone who came near the forges. Students of medieval literature are accustomed to read of the great Prince o° Evil having been often euchred by notaries with very thin tricks, and therefore it does not astonish us | «bear that a Trappir! potary purposely omitted the word * bhurnan ” ina contract Satan took for building a convent bridge aud was paid with a (om cat instead of a ikaman being. Thisr+m nds of the sow it.at the notary eaused first to enter the cathedral of Catogne. The levends range over 9 vorietyoflore. Several are meant aafr si il exam ples KZaivst being carried
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away bodily, like Lenare, for neg'ecting of |
‘pirtual observan es, especially ou All|
Saints, and othere inculeate religious dut |
three turn on the ineffaceab'e
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with a ibread of poetry 1 i, foundelon fac’, relates how Ca micux,a po:tand c mrrzex des bois, p'r- inted againstthese tiends and be ture he died ecratchod on a piece of birch bark a poetical lament which is yet although of doubtful: u he: ticity. Another via canoe under bark wich returned e ery night with fresh blood-stains, al- though they were painted out every morning. Ove rivailiog Browning’s pied piper, where Satan asa magic fiddler compelled a company of Acadians to dance until nothing out their red toques were left whirling above gronnd. Yet én t.er with considerable elemins of power, and of which the subject matter ; may be gathered from the same ‘* the | midoight mass of the deal priest ” has its | pro‘otype in many literatures. Indeed can be traced a resemblance in several compositions current “amoog othe: fil‘«-
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lore, not excepung the Teutonic. Sull we venture to disagree with the distin-
guished suthor, even when he fputs it hypo hetica-ly in Spanish sabe (who knows?) if Bourgoyne’s disbanded Hessians having been cantoaed in the Lower St. Lawrence parishes at the close of the war now could bave given an appreciable tone to these Canadian legends? We think not, nor does jhere seem necessity to import ex- traneous influences. True, we meet with with some poinis of more or less simili- tude in German didactic poetry avd opera, as Wellas in Scottish aud otner ballad, But the original ances'ry of our French brethren was from Finnisterre, the region of prehistoric menhirs, to about Caen, the aforetime land of chivalry; and the French
good prit di
ties that would naturally produce such Cast of sentiment. Judging trom Breton and old Norman literatures, the ancestral French mind was impressionable and strongly devotional and consequently mystic, as is that of the Scotch highland- ers aud of ail other denizens of long~ peopled mountains and lonely shores. If we bave not the immemorial mountains we have the secluded shores. Such tem- perament growing in solitude and inteusi- fied by repressive training would be per- petuated and intensified, nor would there be vecessity to account for a touch of myeticiem by calling in the supposition of actual German contact. We therefore reply toour esteemed friends quere by repeating it, quien sabe?
Two of the legends narrated appertain to Prince Edward Island. A wumber of years back several of the firet minds in Britain, among them the late Lord Teony-~ son, formed a paychological society to come on the track of a haunted hovse, if not in old London avywhere in England —buot £0 far as_ is is known, without success. A person in P EIslaod,a Mrs Penny, communicated to the Society a story of # farm band who haunted a house in Charlottetown royalty, bat it was so absurd it fell to the ground. Had the lady mentioned the hight of Tryon or the old French r&ppe! of Cnarlottetown it would have been better. These two purport to have been narrated on board the Hirondele a P E Islander (who less be recognized by his friends.)
The first of these “the Rappel” though
le-8 professional than the masse of the dead
priest” 1s of the same category. It is now
Slipping into the mist of eld. Mighs it
uot be worth the while of some Island
autiquarian,—ray Judge Alley,—to restore
it to its pristine proportions? The
mythical P K Islander relates as follows.
He -ays, or is supposed to say, —
“You all know about the fall ot Louisburg, how they battered away at it aud at lengil took it. Had I time I could demonstrate to you the weak points oi the detence,/ In & manner that would make old Todlieben stare. However, I haveu’t time, and if had, yon might uot uoder
stand it;80 its no matter. The French had twoor three fortain L’Isle St. Jean, as Prince Edward Island was then called, aod keptsmall garrisons there, although wha’ pussibie use they could be in an I+land ail torests in 8 ummer, and frozen-in six montbs of winter, it would have puzzled Napier of Magdala,or Grant of the Wiider- } ness to say. Probably they were mere}, stockades with aditch. I visited one of} these forts at North River, but found } nothiog more professional! than an outlive
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_—-— Mansion was built over the old French military burial ground, and the family took possession, unmindful of the dead who slept below. Butl teil you for a fact, that at miduight they beard the tap of muthed drums in the cellar, then the sonund = of marching feet,tben the clash of ground- ing arms. It was the midnight parade of the dead. Then after an interval eutticient for inspecuion, the measured tramp of feet was again heard to tapofdrum,. The men were marching off the ground.
One dors put like to heve a barrack ef disembodied troops of the line in hie cellar +without knowing the reason why. So the Rev. Mr. ~ . when he fell heir to the estate, determined to see what could | be done in the premises.
He was by no means a timid man, but on the contrary, being of Scottish descent, bad a ward practical head, and besides he came of a family of soldiers, and, moreover he was in holy orders, Thus trebly armed, he, on many Occasions, descended into the cellerage, and alwaye with the last stroke of twelve by the church there came the {first tap of the drum and the sound of
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of mounds ina field and « pyramid of turuips of the calibre of sixty-eight pound shot. Very likely the posts were merely to; catch deserters from Cape Breton, snd keep scoundrels from the mainlaud from trading with the Indians, whose occasional hunting ground it was; for let me tell you the island had moose and caribou at that time, alihough how they got there God wot! unless the straitswere more firmly | frozen to the mainland than they are now, | —aye,and beaver too, for you can see the | remains of the beaver meadows, and deer antlers are occassionally turned up in the furrowe. The bears must have had a grand time then, for there is pa-sibly good bear bunting in tbe west of ihe Island even now. Of course when Loui-b irg capitus lated, the garrisons were withdrawn, and | were sent back toold France. Not all, | though: for they left some of their number under the sod, about a company strong, I should think, if my story be true. Some |were doubtless scalped by our Micmac | ' brothers, and some must have died from patural causes, although the island is so | extracrd.marily healthy that there are al~ |
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