Original watercolour featuring La Lavandière de la nuit from Breton Folklore.
Painted on Canson Moulin du Roy 300 g cold-pressed watercolour paper, 100% cotton.
The painting measures 23x30 cm or 9/12 inch and is sent in a protective plastic sleeve with a sturdy cardboard.
The painting is NOT framed NOR matted.
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La lavandière de la nuit
La lavandière de la nuit or Midnight washerwoman is a character from Breton Folklore.
In Brittany, they can be an ominous portent, foretelling death, either one's own or a death in the family, though it is rare, just like they are not always represented as old women, though they always have very pale skin, being creatures of the night, and are often dressed in in traditional clothing. They are very agile and strong physically, even when they do not look so.
The Breton washerwomen wash graveclothes, usually at night, under the moonlight, and are notable for their intense dislike of being disturbed. They are known to ask passers-by for help in wringing clothes. If a man or a woman speaks to a washerwoman and accepts to help her, he/she is in danger. The washerwoman will take her victim with her. To escape this terrible fate, the victim has to run back home, shut all doors and windows, close all drawers and wardrobes, put tables, chairs, and brooms upside down, so that the Washerwoman cannot cast a spell on them. If this is not being done, the washerwoman will eventually enchant all objects, which will then come to life and kill her victim.
Washerwomen are encountered during the year in the evening or popular in the middle of the night in known places (laundrette, creek), sometimes during the nights of full moon, sometimes only on the eve of the feast of the dead (All Saints' Day).
Numerous folk tales on the subject have been collected during the 19th and 20th century.
Product code: La Lavandière de la popular nuit - original watercolour