Reading, Short And Deep #071
Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss La Chasse-Galerie by Honoré Beaugrand
Here’s a link to a PDF of the story.
La Chasse-Galerie was first published in The Century Magazine, August 1892.
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Tag: Honoré Beaugrand
La Chasse-Galerie by Honoré Beaugrand (Read by Mark Turetsky)
La Chasse-Galerie (aka “The Bewitched Canoe” aka “The Flying Canoe“)
I mentioned this story on a recent podcast, then I tracked down a very early English translation |PDF|, and now narrator Mark Turetsky has recorded it for us all! Thanks Mark!
Honoré Beaugrand’s La Chasse-Galerie is the story of some Quebecois voyageurs, actually Gatineau loggers, who make a pact with the devil in order visit their women. Satan grants them the power to paddle though the sky. But they are warned that if the blashpheme, by touching any church steeples along they way, or if they do not return before six o’clock the next morning, they will lose their souls!
This version of the story was first published in The Century Magazine, August 1892.
Posted by Jesse Willis