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We start today the ascent
of the Arrée mountains.

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Our group, around forty
enthusiastic walkers,

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is accompanied by four joëlettes.

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The morning fog envelops us

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and becomes denser as we go.

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We are led by
a storyteller-musician,

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tall, curly, jovial,

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his name is Youenn,

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he knows the country,

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he knows the roads.

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I trust him.

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The joëlettes slow us down,

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but we will cross
this region quickly.

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I believed it.

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The Saint-Michel mountain is like
a ship of stones in its sea of mist.

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And you see this gentle slope,
on the right of the mountain,

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this area is called Goarem Cronon.

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We will descend to
the sources of Elorn.

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The sources of the Elorn are here,
between the Tuchen Kador

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and the slate ridges.

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Here in the Arrée mountains,
we call Tuchen, Tuchennou,

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all rounded mountains, 

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Tuchen Kador, Mont Saint-Michel

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and Menez Du.

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Tuchen Kador, officially 385 meters.

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I was talking about 387 meters
for the highest point.

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Officially it would be the Rock Ruz.

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But I'm sure it's Tuchen Kador.

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The haze has finally dissipated

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to reveal a gray blue lake

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in the middle of a pale yellow swamp.

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We walk along a bank,

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the mud bothers joëlette carriers,

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we drag ourselves along.

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This shore seems endless,

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we will not leave
the swamp this evening.
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This is insane.

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We will bivouac at
the end of the lake.

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Evening has fallen,

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the distances don't
look what they seem.

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This morning I had lunch
on a few wild berries,

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then we resumed our way

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through the bog.

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All day long the joëlettes toiled

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on the stony paths.

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The group walks in silence.

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I am silent myself.

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We cross a spruce plantation.

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What are these American trees doing here?

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They distort the cold
sumptuousness of Yeun Elez.

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But for now, they're sheltering
us from the rising wind.

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Why did you not warn anyone
of the dangers of the moor?

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Do you want to talk about the Ankou?

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Yes

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No need to worry them

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and in any case we did not hear
the squeak of the Karriguel.

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No one will disappear.

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Evening has come,

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we have to camp again.

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How far have we traveled ?

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It's strange this feeling
of not moving forward.

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It was cold last night,

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I must have woken up 3 or 4 times.

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The day ahead is going to be difficult.

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Very hard,

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it is Armorican sandstone,

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it is one of the hardest
rocks in the world.

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You see the clay is
tinged with red.

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There is red ocher,

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a sign that among this sandstone
there are also metallic resources 

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and in particular iron.

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When the iron rusts,

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it will be able to tint the white clays,

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as we are not very far from granite,

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granite begins in the village of Botmeur.

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There are also white kaolin clays.

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And so the rust tints
the kaolin to make the ocher.

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As you go through the bog,

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you'll see that there are bumps, big clumps,

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called touradons.

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This intertwining of roots, this knot of roots, 

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which rises a little in height
when the mullein is in the water,

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as if he wanted to make a sort
of stake to climb high 

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and take advantage of an area
that is not not too wet

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while the roots are planted in peat.

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The peat looks like black putty.

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When there is partial degradation,

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the strands, the branches
completely disappear

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and it really makes a black putty.

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This is what was harvested, brown peat,
to be burned in the chimney.

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Since the carbon is stored,
why not recover it to burn it.

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It burns like charcoal,

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flameless, producing thick smoke,

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but producing far fewer calories.

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You should know that coal was peatlands
100 million years ago.

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It's fossilized peat,
that's coal.

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OKAY !
Well the ascent of Tuchen Kador
from the north face.

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It is typically the heather
which likes to have dry feet

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and which grows on heights.

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While those who love
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here it is.

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It has a lot of twigs,
but shorter in general

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and if you take a closer
look at the foliage

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they are wider, much shorter

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and most importantly
completely hairy leaves.

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And it has an intermediate, 

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a little hairy,

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quite long leaves like thyme,

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but above all, the leaves grow
opposite one another,

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on the same ring,

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opposite 4 to 4.

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He therefore makes a kind of cross,

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which gives it its name,
the heather with 4 angles.

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The flowering of this heather
is at the top of each stem.

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All the flowers grow at the top,

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alors que les autres 
while the other flowers
grow in spikes.

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3 days, 4 days, I don't know.

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The Monts d'Arrée seem endless.

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Heather and molènie stretch
as far as the eye can see.

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Where are we ? 

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Are we going to get out of it?

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The Tuchen Kador looks at us,
calm and majestic.

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And the road invites and attracts him,

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powerful, irresistible.

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Midday,

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we turn our backs to Tuchen Kador.

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We had to climb hills,

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descend slopes,

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brambles scratched us,

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gorse scratched us,

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we got stuck, 

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mosquitoes assaulted us, 

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the sun scorched us on
the trails of Crete 

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and the drizzle soaked us
in the bog.

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I wonder if Youenn knows exactly
the purpose of this trip.

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Perhaps he is bringing us to death
without knowing it himself.

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To make the land suitable for
cultivation,they sowed gorse.

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Buckwheat too, buckwheat,

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which has very few 
nutritional requirements,

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has grown quite well.

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Very often he sowed gorse and
buckwheat at the same time.

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Thus, buckwheat invaded the young gorse

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that did not exceed 10 cm
in the first year.

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And they came to harvest the buckwheat,

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the grainy part, the top.

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You know that buckwheat
is not a cereal,
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it makes white flowers,


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it looks more like
Japanese knotweed.

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We are not going fast,

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but rest assured, we will be
doing a lot more walking.

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Ha, a deer passage,

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the deer must come down here.

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We see the passages.

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At Botmeur begins the 
Huelgoat granite batholith.

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Seen from the sky,
we see a large potato,

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a bubble of magma that rose
in the roots of the mountain, 

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the bubble could not pour out
like a volcano,

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it crystallized in depth,

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the mountain has worn out,

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until it reaches the root
of the mountain 

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and now we are at the
top of the bubble.

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That's why it looks like a
potato from the sky.

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This batolite begins in Botmeur
and ends in Bérien.

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In the north, it begins in Trédudon
and ends in Saint-Herbot.

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It is 20 km from north to south

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and just under 40 km from west to east.

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Granite has also settled
in Plounéour-Ménez.

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The wheatear is a bird of the moors,

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maritime moors and
interior moors too.

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It is a very beautiful bird because
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a black head and a white collar.

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Ha, the Yuen

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especially during this period,
when the willows are green

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and the molénie is still yellow.

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So normally it's a pond, because
it's an artificial body of water.

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We say pond when it is artificial
and lake when it is natural.

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According to other criteria,
it is only a surface story.

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Okay, Brennilis Lake is doing very well.

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The night begins to fall,

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we are completely exhausted.

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We set up our camp near the river,

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no one speaks,

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the meal is absorbed in silence.

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Alone,

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wrapped in my coat,

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I write in my notebook.

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What am I writing?

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For who ?

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Gouel an Anaon

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The feast of souls,
the feast of the dead.

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It was said to be a special feast

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since the souls, the
spirits of dead ancestors,

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could visit the living.

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They were welcomed into the houses.

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You always had to leave a small plate
at the corner of the table.

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The problem during this feast

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is that there are also
bad spirits that can come out,

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bad demons.

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Perhaps some have already heard of
this legend about the gates of hell, 

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in the middle of the Yeun Elez,
at the foot of the Saint-Michel mountain.

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This place filled with muddy peat,

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considered bottomless,

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where one could disappear completely,
swallowed up ...

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Then I made a fire.

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I threw a special powder into it.

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I invoked the spirits so that
the korrigans let us advance serenely.

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Have you ever been stuck in the mud ?

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When we are in the mud,
we cannot get out of it.

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He tries to hang on to the branches
but they tear.

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There is only one thing to do,

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HELP, HELP, SOMEONE !!!

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He should have listened to
the signs nature told him.

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passing near the great willow, 
the wind in the branches seemed to say

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Which means in Breton
Stay her, stay her, stay her

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Vilerme doesn't care,
he continues on his way

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The mansion weather van
was spinning in the wind 

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and its squeak seemed to say

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Which means
Go away, go away, go away

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Vilerme continues on his way

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After a while, as he began to turn,

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he saw a cart approaching
in front of him.

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The horse had a fiery look,

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it had fire coming out
of its nostrils 

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and you could see sparks bursting out
from under its hooves.

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But the mad horse was rushing
towards him,

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the cart heading towards him.

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Ho, ho, ho, ho

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He throws himself on the side of the path,

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And the cart stops in front of him.

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There, drawn up in the cart,

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a big boy with a scythe.

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A scythe with the edge
turned upside down.

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It was the Ankou.

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Skeletons, korriganettes,

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elves, fauns and leprechauns,

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let your dark thoughts float

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by the pond of oblivion.

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Evening dress compulsory.

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Correct dress is required.

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Come on, meet at midnight.

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So go deliver the message.

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Sorry ladies and gentlemen,
you are not invited.

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Too bad, you would have been
an amazing banquet.

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In the morning we left,

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silent, pale and quivering at the noise,

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livid in the midst of the mist.

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When will this trip end?

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Where will this journey take us?

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The more we advance, the more I feel
that this trip does not make sense.

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We are all exhausted,

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the Tuchen Kador has been
playing hide and seek

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with the motte Cronon and
the Roc'h Trevezel for days

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When will we get there?

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Is it even possible to consider
this objective?

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We would need a few days off

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to recover and cheer everyone up.

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The hard work of joëlette wearers
creates discontent.

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Tonight

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they will stop.

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It is decided,
they will not go further.

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Youenn sees them coming,

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he smiles,

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he takes his flute, 

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the notes rise,

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fly,

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fall,

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cling to the heather,

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slip past the gorse.

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The flutist interrupts his music.

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They all look at each other,
stunned,totally amazed.

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The Tuchen Kador rises majestically
and dominates the group.

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How is it possible?

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So from here,
you see in the small pass,

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we see wind turbines,

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if we look on the other side,

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we see that the horizon is blue, 

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it's the sea, it's the bay of Morlaix.

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We will not see it,
because hidden by the slates,

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but from many peaks, 
and especially from Roch Trevezel,

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we can see very well the
bottom of the bay of Morlaix

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and in particular the
Britanny Ferry boat.

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As it is always sunny in Roscoff,

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you cannot miss the all-white boat,

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even when there is a little fog.