La Nuit de la Samaïn

La Nuit de la Samaïn

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Les vacances de la Toussaint approchaient, et avec elles Halloween. C'est devenu une fête commerciale, l'occasion de vendre des bonbons et de faire la fête. Autrefois, cette fête avait du sens, y compris ici, en terre de Bretagne. On l'appelait Samaïn . C'était le nouvel an celte. On célébrait le passage de la période lumineuse (les jours longs) à la période sombre (les jours plus courts). Femme celte, je suis attachée à nos traditions. Cette origine d'Halloween non anglo-saxonne me parle. Je cherchais un moyen de faire écrire les jeunes que j'encadre. Je souhaitais leur donner l'occasion de partager leur imaginaire, et le sujet m'est apparu évident, vu l'époque. Plutôt que de faire des acrostiches comme le Noël précédent, j'envisageai de les faire rêver autour du thème d'Halloween. En fait je venais d'apprendre que jusqu'à la moitié du XXème siècle, dans les campagnes principalement, les bretons fêtaient encore, en ce 31 octobre, la Samaïn. (cf Nadine Cretin,) À cet effet, ils déposaient sur la table de la cuisine, un pichet de boisson, des vivres (pâté, far, pain...), et remettaient une bûche dans l'âtre afin d'honorer les ancêtres, censés leur rendre visite pendant la nuit. Je n'ai pas eu d'écrits d'adolescents sur le sujet. Je n'ai pas pu mettre en œuvre le concours d'historiettes que j'avais envisagé. Il avait été jugé trop « tendancieux », trop « fantastique ». Mais je me suis prise au jeu et j'ai laissé mon imagination vagabonder. Lisez plutôt !
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She lead a rather tragic life. The black sheep of her family due to her lack of affinity for fire. Her affinity was quite the opposite. Water in fact. Already in a time when women did not really have much political power or rights, she was outcasted by her family despite being of nobility. Still allowed to live in the distant west wing of the massive Grand Duke's manor, she has never eaten a single meal with her family nor extended family, and has spent her loneliness in her books and sword lessons. Although only taught by the head butler and one of the low ranked knights of the family, she was quite bright and if her family would have given her a chance she would have done great things. If only she didn't die at such a young age. Married off to some "hero" of sort that had slayed the Dragon of the North who was terrorizing the land and threatened the kingdom, this hero also had an affinity for fire and held her in disdain like the rest of her family. Suddenly a girl of another world was transported to their world, picked up by this hero and put into his secure care. The pair soon fell for each other despite the hero's marriage, and many believed Laraine got jealous of this girl of mystery, and tried to kill her. This was definitely not true. But because the girl was favored by the temple and kingdom Laraine was quickly arrested and put on trial. You can probably tell what happened to Laraine. But something strange happened the day of her execution. As soon as her decapitated head hit the ground the sky turned blood red and it began to rain fire. No one survived that day. But for some reason time went back, and Laraine was back to being a child, but with no memory of her future. There were select few in her life, however, that remembered her tragedy and now perhaps will take action to prevent it. NOTE: I'M AWARE THERE ARE A LOT OF INCONSISTENCIES. IT WILL BE EDITED SOME DAY BUT RIGHT NOW I'M JUST TRYING TO FINISH IT.

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