Bonjour from Brittany

Enjoying life in Kalon Breizh.

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@PrivateEyeNews What was the sum of the Awami League's involvement in her campaigns? Enough to pass the "Foreign interference" bar? How many times have her family been cited under the UK Bribery Act - has anyone sent in an FOI request about that and the various World Bank and DFID reports on BD

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@PrivateEyeNews An interesting listen. You didn't ask where the money came from as, at that time, it was almost impossible to legally transfer more than a few thousand dollars out of BD. Similarly, numerous clips on YouTube of her thanking the Awami League for her election wins - hyperbole or ..

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@daisyayliffe Plenty more examples of her thanking the AL for her election wins on YouTube too

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@TheDavidBergman @TulipSiddiq Well, there is an explanation ;-) but whether the NCA will follow-up is key. Maybe they should start with a look at the warning reports in historic SOCA and FCO/DFID files!

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@Gabriel_Pogrund A few well-chosen FOI requests will bring out some interesting connections between massive levels of corruption and intimidation and her close, immediate family.

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

At the turn of the 20thC, women anxious to obtain favourable winds for their sailor husbands would strike the cupules of Roc’h-en-Aud dolmen; a ritual that needed to be done alone at night and without being seen in order to be successful. #mythologymonday https://t.co/3O8qstamGg

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

Legend tells that the sound of the wind whistling between the stones of the world’s largest dolmen,
La Roche-aux-Fées, are the lamentations of souls no longer visited by the fairies who built it and who disappeared with the demise of the forest. #MythologyMonday

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@inkgypsy I am afraid not. Perrault seems to have cast his net widely but we will likely never know if an actual person really inspired his tale. Just to confuse matters, there is a Breton legend that says that Bluebeard's last wife actually married King Arthur instead!

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

Before her marriage to the Breton Bluebeard, his bride was given a magic ring whose silver shone as white as milk but turned black as a raven’s wing to warn her of approaching danger! #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/QyzFJFZbus

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@inkgypsy Thank you! Glad that you liked it. :-)

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@inkgypsy Certainly! It's now unlocked!! ;-) I locked a few old posts in a fit of pique when I saw that they were being visited by chatgpt content generator! 🙄

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@SundayFolklore You are most welcome! Thanks for all your hard work running this day and sharing!! :-)

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

A black cat with one white hair was considered most auspicious; any who could pull this hair without being scratched would receive great riches. One Breton belief warned against swallowing a cat hair as it could turn into a snake in and cause a most painful death. #FolkloreSunday

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

It was said that if one injured a toad, it would return at night to suffocate its attacker. The toad never forgot its enemy & could wait years before enacting its revenge; it even threw venom on the grave of the tormentor who died before it #FaustianFriday https://t.co/JnajaUOVvR

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@lilithepunk 🤗 thank you!

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

Up until the 1920s, people would come from afar to buy the ashes of Motreff's midsummer bonfire whose miraculous properties were widely believed to help corn grow. It was also said to help make the best poultices for treating chest ailments! #FaustianFriday

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@bictaker 😃

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

If a Breton girl danced around 9 midsummer fires or found a vantage point that allowed her to see the flames of 9 fires at once, she would marry before next midsummer. But to swing a baby before the flames of 3 midsummer fires was to forever protect it from fear. #WyrdWednesday

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@Wytchelm Thank you! I am pleased that you enjoyed it. 😊🙏

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

Midsummer’s Day was believed to be the most auspicious occasion for gathering the plants that made the strongest love potion, namely: Marjoram, Myrtle, Thyme and Verbena. The dried leaves were ground to a powder and taken as a snuff. #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/ucZImQ6hQf

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

@ThanatosArchive Very much so!

[Bonjour from Brittany @BonReposGites]

So sad that the destruction of Brittany's ancient standing stones has not been consigned to the past! Two rows of 39 stones likely erected over 7,000 years ago have been destroyed just to extend a retail park at Montauban, Carnac! #StandingStoneSunday
https://t.co/sfubpq9jZj