Les euvangiles des quenouilles

Fouquart de Cambray (attributed)

Public domain

A 15th-century French text in which women gather at the distaff and recount proverbs, folk remedies, superstitions and old wives' lore. Transcribed in the original medieval French from a Gallica scan; a major but rarely read source on medieval folk belief.

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