Case file · Folklore / legend
Le Braz records the Ankou
In 1893, Anatole Le Braz published 'La Légende de la mort', hundreds of Breton accounts of the Ankou, the skeletal driver of the death cart, and of death omens (intersignes).
1893 CE · 48.00, -4.10 · status: legend
The account
Collected from villagers in Lower Brittany, the stories describe the creak of the Ankou's cart at night, and the last person to die in a parish each year taking the role.