The Bewitched Canoe

This is a popular french canadian tale. After a night of heavy drinking on New Year's Eve, a group of loggers, working in an isolated winter camp want to visit their sweethearts some 300 miles away. The only way to make such a long journey and be back in time for work the next morning is to run the "chasse-galerie". However, the travelers must not mention God's name or touch the cross of any church steeple as they whisk by in the flying canoe. If either of these rules are broken during the voyage, then the Devil will have their souls.

In Quebec, the best known version is written by Honoré Beaugrand in 1900. Beaugrand was a Freemason Luciferian. This particular story can be traced back to a French legend about a rich nobleman named Gallery who loved to hunt.He loved it so much that he refused to attend Sunday mass. As punishment for this sin he was condemned to forever fly through the night skies, chased by galloping horses and howling wolves, in a fashion reminiscent of the Wild Hunt.

La Chasse-galerie by Henri Julien (1852-1908)


The Legend of the Flying Canoe (La Chasse-galerie) (1996)


 

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