he legends tell of a people's spirit; they are pieces of their story that we would have repainted with dream's colors.

Like a river's flow, they run through the land and shine with a shred of time, the beliefs, the hopes and the fears of the moment.

Often, devils, witches and will o' wisps incarnate all the threats which dominated a frail colony's struggle for survival, of small people which were considered without history and although, like heroes of these tales, managed to overcome the obstacles with the help of its traditions and values.

Our legends' heroes find their salvation in each facet of this culture: sometimes in religion, which formerly took such a great place in its development, sometimes in this solidarity, without which survival had been impossible on a hostile land, sometime in the attachment to the French origins, without which no new culture could have seen the light of day here, and often with humor too, heritage of our Latin nature.

Our legends constitute a treasure that is all too often ignored, forgotten under the centuries' dust, while in all the countries of the world these myths are guaranteeing national identity and are preserved and transmitted with the largest respect for this reason.

Its time to clear the dust of the forgotten, the spider webs of the indifference which cover them and to return them under the light of a new day.