When he comes back, he puts the log into the fireplace, comes near the old woman to give her the woollen cloth. But she suddenly disappears leaving place to a gorgeous woman, with silky long red hair and a beautiful white dress.

- «Thank you...Hervé » says the woman to him.

The man is surprised that the woman knows his name but he recognizes her immediately, especially since she looks exactly like the legendary description: she is the Queen of Korrigans, the Breton goblins ! To thank him for his kindness, his generosity and his hospitality, she tells him the secret to enter a cave full of treasures and wealth. She allows him to take there whatever he wants but on one condition: he must go to the cave just before nightfall and he must be back in his house before sunrise. She suddenly disappears. The light has just started to decrease : night is falling. Hervé decides to go to the cave with a big wooden chest he has had for a long time and which he has never used so far. « Finally it will be useful”, he says to himself, “I was right to keep it ». ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La grotte des Korrigans, Le Pouliguen, France