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

The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century

Jean-Claude Schmitt, Schmidtt Jean-Claude, Jean-Claude Schmidtt

228 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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