La chasse galerie: Légendes Canadiennes

The volume gathers a sequence of short narratives drawn from local oral folklore, framed by a storyteller who introduces and links each tale. Stories recount eerie and comic encounters with supernatural forces—pacts that enable impossible journeys, shape-shifting creatures, and monstrous apparitions—each told with vivid sensory detail, rustic dialogue rendered in a lively register, and occasional moral or cautionary notes. Scenes alternate between raucous camp conviviality and dramatic nocturnal episodes, relying on incantations, local customs, and sly humour to heighten suspense. The collection presents folklore as living narrative, blending mythic motifs, regional color, and storytelling performance rather than a continuous plot.