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Eadhmonn
Unregistered User
(3/5/06 6:11 am)
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Dancing Fee's Tapestry of Terror
Hi, I'm trying to locate a legend about a "tapestry" tha was created by a Breton weaver, who witnessed the Fee's dancing around the stones at Carnac, and became part of the tapestry, the story went on to say, that when the Germans occupied France, that an officer was left in the room alone with the tapestry, and terrible screams were heard, but the officer was found dead rolled up in the tapestry, and when in the 1950's, an expert was called in to examine the tapestry-she too was left alone in the room-and again terrible screams were heard-when they opened the door the agonised woman's hand had become part of the tapestry.
I would like to know if anyone has heard of this legend, and if so where can I find out more about it.
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Writerpatrick
Registered User
(3/5/06 6:28 pm)
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Re: Dancing Fee's Tapestry of Terror
I've tried looking for it on the internet but I keep coming up with references to the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Eadhmonn
Registered User
(3/5/06 7:48 pm)
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Re: Dancing Fee's Tapestry of Terror
Hi and Thanks for searching, I noticed there's a section called Cabinet des Fees, which would probably know the origin of this legend, I just wish I could remember where I first read about this.
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catja1
Registered User
(3/6/06 1:15 pm)
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Re: Dancing Fee's Tapestry of Terror
That sounds like a ghost story by M.R. James or Algernon Blackwood, but more recent. You might want to check the website "The Literary Gothic" -- they might have some information.
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Eadhmonn
Registered User
(3/8/06 8:50 am)
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Re: Dancing Fee's Tapestry of Terror
I checked out the refrences you listed, so far, nothing has come up, but I will be looking into listings for Marie de France, and Mme. De Aulnoy, also the the works of Arthur Machen, and Charles Perrault and Thanks for the Literary Gothic link.
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LadyErmine
Unregistered User
(3/10/06 2:29 pm)
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Tapestry
There is a horror story (possibly by Seabury Quinn) called "The Cloth of Madness" where a cloth originally woven in India has a similar effect on people who are shut in a room with it - I suspect something like this, rather than a folk-legend, is the origin of this story.
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