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EUROPEAN LEGENDS - Writing process

  • European Collaborative Legends

    The Curse of Notre Dame's Guardian (Legend 1)

    Once upon a time, in a world which was really strange !

    In this world, the people are monsters, for exemple, a humains have three heads, or with two blues nooses... Another the trees resembled to kiwis !

    There, lived a man who was the Notre Dame's guardian.But this man was not happy because he had a terrible curse. The day of his eighteenth birthday, it was a horrendous day because he was accused of having eaten his father!! So he was evicted of his village. One day, unfortunately, he met the witches and they cast him a spell!

    After this day, he was the Notre Dame's guardian. Because he was imprisoned for life, but if he meet the love, the curse was lifted.

    Years passed and suddenly, a spring day...

    Legend 2

    A long time ago on Etna volcano, there were 3 characters : Dracula who lived in Saint Galgano Abbey in Tuscanie, a Zombie who lived in Rome and a Unicorn who lived in Volcamonica. It was a dark dark night and the bad people met in the Etna volcano to eat the horn of the Unicorn so they set a trap for the Unicorn. A person said to her that her brother had disappeared a long time ago so the Unicorn came. The zombie and Dracula tried to attack the Unicorn but a creature appeared and pushed the hungry creature on the floor...Before a short moment the Unicorn realized that the creature was a Phoenix...

    Legend 4

    Every 30 years since 1423 the same scenario happens. It's always at the same place and for the same reasons. It was happening next to a road and a holy forest, which was the forest of «Stelmužė Oak». The forest was scary, ghastly, musky and there was frost. The White Lady was pale, she wore a white torn dress and she was barefoot. The White Lady killed all of the people ,who passed by the 86 road every 30 years. If after one year nobody gave her a fairy from the Alpes or she declared a war against the werewolves. Unfortunately the fairies disappears…

    Krampus of the Brocéliande Forest (Legend 5)

    krampus was a very ugly monster. He was hairy. He had two big horns. He had pointed ears and teeth and green eyes. Krampus was discreet. Krampus lived in the Broceliande Forest. If people got into the forest the monster ate them, so it was risky. Krampus took the people in his dark cave. In the dark cave there were bones. It was damp. It was terrifying. Yet the forest was beautiful, it was bright. Around the dark cave the forest it was dark but you should not judge a book by its cover because the monster lived in the forest.

    Legend 6 (following part)

    Soon, they arrived at the bottom of the Etna but suddenly they stopped.
    Bernis went back, in front of a figure stranger was observing the goblins? The goblins didn't know what to do: flee or stay? Corneille, the most courageous, came with a creature, a baby werewolf. Boudjoun got scared, left in a rush and let his brother handle the problem...

    Legend 7

    It was dark at night , a group of children were walking and they started to degrade the Coliseum . The coliseum was gloomy and it was cold . The Krampus observed the children . He was ugly and terrifying , he had sharp teeth . One child caught sight of red eyes . He told to the other children :

    « I saw a monster ! »

    A another child said :

    « No it's false , it's your imagination »

    Little by little the children disappeared , until only one child remained. The child began to stress , he heard a bark then the Tibecena took shape in front of the child . He ran toward the exit of the Coliseum but ...

    Legend 8

    On December 5th, 1967 Blue Beard the pirate was kidnaped by Krampus the half-man- half-goat in the big dark and moist cavern. There were rats and bats. The tavern was at the bottom of a mountain of Val-Carmonica. He had kidnaped Barbe Blue because he did not like pirates. When Krampus went to scare the children, Barbe Blue shouted strong battle cries. Blue Beard's friends heard cries and ...

    Legend 9

    Hercule
    Castle del Monte in Italy

    Legend 10

    Once upon a time in Rome, a terrible monster destroyed everything. His name was Krampus. All the Romans were scared of krampus because he had destroyed many houses, or famous places like the pantheon and the colosseum.Romans tried to kill him but all are failed. Romans were divided in many groups, the bigger group of Romans escaped Rome to call for help. It was difficult because the group needed water and food to survive. finally the group finded a hero and he was Hercule. One day...

    Legend 12

    Every 11th October in Valcamonica there are 5 people who die because of the White Lady . The Valcamonica is a valley in Italy.

    The white Lady has a white dress , the black hair and didn't show anywhere.

    The legend says the white Lady is a woman who died the day of her wedding since then she takes revenge on five passersby . But one day the fairy from the Alpes were fed up with it. She had an idea .Her idea was to go on the path the 11 th October to speak to the White Lady ,but she came when the White Lady was looking for victims .

    Legend 13

    Somewhere and someday, a beggar called San Pedro, was walking through the mountains, when, suddenly, a giant appeared.
    The beggar was very hungry and thirsty so, he ask the giant if he could gave him a piece of bread and some water. The giant said NO!!! because the food was for himself.
    Then, the beggar said:
    -Because of your avarice, you are going to get lost.
    Moments later, the giant get lost and he convert into a mountain called:
    MONTEPERDIDO

    By: Diego Lagartos, Mario Álvarez, Daniel Millán

    The legend of the river Ebro

    The legend says that in the Stone Bridge of Zaragoza, a bus fell down to the river Ebro. The bus stayed there for two hours. And when they rescued them, there weren't people in the bus. And it is said that there is a well with all the people that disappeared that day.

    Astou Gueye, Guillén Martínez, María Lapeña and Lucía Marco.

    Legend 14

    A long time ago, some children dissappear near the forest of Zugarramundi. Some old witches kidnapped them for torturate them. The children never came back and the witches won that night.

    Legend 3

    The White Lady lived in Notre Dame de Paris and Dracula lived at Mont st Michel with Nessie so the white Lady took care of the Unicorns and Pegasus. She watched them in the forest. Dracula wanted to eat the Unicorns and Pegasus but the White Lady wanted and tried to protect them.

    Dracula had big teeth and a long cape and Dracula always dressed in black and he loved Nessie. Nessie looked like dinosors, he was green. Nessie was his pet.

    The White Lady dress always in the colors white and she is a ghost. She loves Pegasus and Unicorns.

    Legend 11

    It was a dark night of 1346, when Reynard the Fox went out of his bedroom. He heard a sound coming FROM THE ETNA VOLCANO. Reynard panicked because he wondered if the goblins took the Etna's stone?” No it was impossible to take it if you were not a dragon and they would never give the stone in exchange for anything. When he went out of his house what he see , terrified him. All the goblins were flying on the dragons, but the eyes of the dragons were unusually black. On the greatest dragon, the stone was bright, in the hand of the goblin's king. The dragons were hypnotized by the goblins. The Etna volcano was erupting and a ball of lava falled on Reynard's house.
    Reynard began to cry.
    “ I need to take back the stone. I am going to hunt down this damn goblins”

  • Elements for the legends:

    French legendary characters:

    -Reynard the fox

    - La Dame Blanche (= The White Woman)

    - Werewolves

    - Robert le Diable (=Robert the Devil) - he's said to have been an evil Norman Duke.

    - the Normans (// with Ireland and Scotland)

    - Gobelins 

    - the Vikings (// with Ireland and Scotland)

    French legendary places:

    - Notre Dame

    - Brocéliande (King Arthur's legend forest, in Brittany)

    - Carnac Menhirs

    - Barbe Bleue (=Bluebeard, Gilles De Rais, a rapist and murderer from Brittany, people make a parallel with Perrault's story)

    - Carrouges Castle (in Normandy)

    Italian legendary characters:

    - Krampus (half man- half goat) in villages bordering Austria

    - fairies from the Alps

    - Bruxas (witches from Sardinia)

    - Badalisc, mythical creature from the Val Camonica

    Italian legendary places:

    - Sardinia

     - Valcamonica (a valley)

    - Rome

     - Saint Galgano Abbey in Tuscany

     - Castel del Monte, Puglia (a mysterious castle, all the building is linked to number 8)

    - Etna volcano

    Spanish legendary characters:

    - The Enchanted moura ( a very beautiful and seductive fairy form Galicia, Spain)

    - A Tibecena ( a demon or genious from the Canary Islands with the bodies of great wild black dogs with red eys)

    - A montequero ( a monster that lives on human fat - village children can be stolen by an outsider, disguised as a beggar or a trader, who is hired by a rich man whose ill child can only be cured with the blood of healthy babies.)

    - Perez Mouse (the equivalent of the tooth fairy)

    Spanish legendary places:

    - Catalunia

    - Granada

    - University of Salamanca

    Lithuanian legendary characters:

    - Auštaras (Auštra), the god of the northeast wind, who stands at the gates of paradise and lights the way for those going to paradise.

    -  Ežerinis, a spirit of lakes

    - Aitvaras, a household spirit bringing both good and bad luck

    - Jūratė and Kastytis : Lithuanian heroes

    Lithuanian legendary places:

    - the Baltic sea

    - The Stelmužė Oak (the oldest oak in Lithuania and one of the oldest in all Europe)

    - Kernavė Mounds (=small hils)

    - Ladalkanis hill

    - Devil’s Pit (  It is 40 meters (131 feet) deep and is widely known as the ‘queen of all sinkholes’ in the Baltic States.)

    European/famous legendary characters:

    - Trolls
    -giants
    -mermaids
    -dwarfs
    - witches
    - Rudolph the reindeer
    - ghosts
    - the Devil
    - angels
    - a mommy
    - phenix
    - zombies
    - werewolf/ werewolves
    - Easter Bells
    - Sandman
    - monsters

    - Nessie (Scottish)
    - Jack'o'lantern (British)
    - Dracula ( British)
    - Hercule (Greek)
    - Romulus and Remus (Roman)
    - Ulysses (Greek)
    - Orphee (Greek)
    - Thor (Nordic)
    - Ares (Greek)
    - Zeus (Greek)
    - Poseidon (Greek)
    - Leprauchaum (Irish)
    - snakes
    - Merlin (Saxes)
    - Unicorns – Pegasus