#MythologyMonday: #Dahut, the last pagan princess of #Brittany, was sait to have taken scores of young men to her bed, each for a single night of bliss. Afterwards every nightly visitor would put on a mask to retrace his steps unseen. But the mask would grow tighter and tighter until it squeezed the very breath out of the unfortunate young man, after which a servant would haul the body to an abyss between Huelgoat & Pualoauen.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology & #Folklore`

Daily Sketch Challenge 10/08/23: Dahu.

A dahu is a creature that resembles a mountain goat whose left legs are drastically shorter than its right, or vice versa.

This particular wind-up is native to France and Francophone regions of Switzerland and Italy.

#dailysketchchallenge #laevogyrous #dextrogyre #dahu #france #switzerland #italy #dahut #darou #daru #darhut #dau #tamarou #tamarro #mountaingoat #dahusenestrus #dahudestrous