The Holy Greyhound
Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century
by Jean-Claude Schmitt

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• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Language: english
• Author: Jean-Claude Schmitt
• Genres: history, medieval, france, christianity, religion
• Release date: March 31, 1983
• ISBN: 9780521244343 (052124434X)
• Format: hardcover, 225 pages

About The Book

The legend of a dog which is unjustly killed by its master in error, after it has defended his child from attack by a snake or wolf, appears in several popular cultures of Indo-European origin. This book concentrates on one local manifestation of the legend: a cult among the peasants of the Dombes, north of Lyons, who brought their sick child to the grave of ‘Saint Guinefort’, the martyred greyhound, for preservation from disease. Providing a rare access to the underlying cultural traditions of Europe, all too often submerged in the survivals of literate culture, this book will be welcomed by a wide range of historians and anthropologists.

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