The photograph illustrates charles géniaux's description of the witch in the work la france qui s'en va: "naïa was seated at the entrance to a chained niche, a large iron-shod stick in her hand. [. . . ] she seemed to me a robust woman of sixty years old. Her features, her wrinkled forehead, could have been of a centenarian, while her fleshy and strong hands belied the early old age from the top of her face. But i will never forget the eyes of this curious thrower of spells. Romantic look, consisted with a huge, very clean shawl and a coarse woolen dress. ". Object Type: photography. Date: début du 20ème siècle. Dimensions: height: 18.6 cm (7.3 in); width: 13.3 cm (5.2 in). Medium: photography. Depicted Place: château des Rieux, Rochefort-en-Terre. Collection: Museum of Brittany. Naïa la sorcière
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