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Show French Superstitions To considerable extent, th Frem-h peasants still attach credence to th evil eye, to witches, to wer-wolves snd to other weird medieval superstitions. In spit of years of persistent effort to eradicate these primitive beliefs. In many remote villages of Normandy and Brittany belief In heathen deities also survives. Sacred trees ar th object of midnight worship, when young girls gather to dance In th moonlight as In th days of Druidtcst heathenism. Healer and medicine men abound In the rural districts snd certain animals still ar treated with reverential awe. Case Involving superstition su-perstition ar constantly coming to tb attention of th French courts. |