Cheval Gauvin
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The Cheval Gauvin (French : Gauvin horse) is a legendary evil horse of Franche-Comté, France and the Jura Mountains in Switzerland. It is said to frequent watercourses, forests or cemeteries and to kill those who mount it by drowning them or throwing them into chasms.
The horse is mentioned close to Chamblay by Désiré Monnier from 1854. It is a harbinger of death, and appears to have been a kind of bogeyman for children. Possibly a transformed lutin (hobgoblin) it is one of a number of legendary horses of Jura. Jean-Louis Thouard depicted it in 1996.
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Bibliography
- Désiré Monnier, Traditions populaires comparées, J. B. Dumoulin, 1854, 812 p.
- Marie Émile Aimé Vingtrinier, Croyances et traditions populaires, 1874, 2e éd.
- Henri Dontenville, Histoire et géographie mythiques de la France, G. P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1973, 378 p. (ISBN 9782706805523)
- Henri Dontenville, Mythologie française : Regard de l'histoire, Payot, 1973, 2e éd., 267 p.
- Willy Borgeaud, Mythologie de la Suisse ancienne, vol. 2, Librairie de l'Université Georg, 1965, 141 p.
- Arnold Van Gennep, Manuel de folklore français contemporain : Cycle des douze jours, vol. 7, Picard, 1987 (ISBN 9782708400740)
- Jean-Michel Doulet, Quand les démons enlevaient les enfants: les changelins : étude d'une figure mythique : Traditions & croyances, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002, 433 p. (ISBN 9782840502364)
- Hervé Thiry-Duval, L'esprit féerique. Dictionnaire des fées en Pays Comtois, Langres, Dominique Guéniot, 1 March 2005 (ISBN 978-2878252453)
- Paul Sébillot, Le folklore de France, vol. 1, Librairie orientale & américaine, 1904, 977 p.
- Jules Surdez et Gilbert Lovis, Animaux et contes fantastiques du Jura, Éditions du Pré-Carré, 1984, 164 p.
- Jean-Louis Thouard, Bestiaire fantastique du pays de Comté, Édition Marie-Noëlle, 1er janvier 1996, 99 p. (ISBN 978-2910186180)
- Patricia Gaillard et Dominique Lesbros, Contes et légendes du Jura, Éditions de Borée, 2007, 536 p. (ISBN 9782844945914)
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