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The legend of the Aiguille de la Cance

During our stay on holiday in Normandy, we visited The small cascade of Mortain and the Aiguille de la Cance (50) and have learned this legend ...

In the country, there was talk of a retreat unknown and feared: a mysterious valley where the waters rush with a terrible crash into a narrow basin, surrounded by tall trees, a huge mass of rocks and steep a shadow almost impenetrable.

The basin in which were gathering waters of the stream, served as an asylum for fairies and nymphs of the country. Woe to him who had attempted to cross the boundaries of the sacred cave.

One day a young warrior, Léonix, wanted to reach them and try to surprise the secrets of their mysterious presence. So one evening he came up thick clumps of bushes that lined the roadway. Then, carefully spreading branches, he saw the nymphs who came out of the crystal wave.

The rustle of leaves ajar had frightened. As soon as the nymph Cance of detached himself from his companions and ran in a few strides towards Léonix, and with a quick movement, the spindle pierced violently she held in her hand.

Léonix, mortally wounded, sank at once: he was dead.

Soil parted to engulf his body. The time of the nymph, still stuck in the chest of the rash, that became the tombstone can still be seen today not far from the bridge of the valley on the edge of the precipice torrential.

This beautiful and gigantic obelisk, known as a needle or Time, which rises to the top la hauteur du plateau voisin. Isolé de la masse des rochers qui l'avoisinent, il forme le monolithe le plus remarquable de toute la région.

Les compagnes de la nymphe de la Cance démolirent avec leurs fuseaux la chaussée, puis disparurent pour toujours de la vallée. On dit depuis que les éclats des eaux qui se font entendre en se heurtant contre les pieds des rochers, sont les échos de leurs sanglots.

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Photos : Stefen