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From the "Grand Goule" to Mélusine
Poitou-Charentes cultivates its roots. In this rural land, counts, legends and traditions are still transmitted from one generation to the next.
This is quite notably the case with the "Fée Mélusine" (the fairy from Melle...).
If the legend is to be believed, this female building wizard of the Middle Ages was endowed with unlimited powers.
It was as if by magic that she conjured up the castles and fortresses in the vicinity of Lusignan, thereby ensuring the fortune and power of her family.
Another legend stemming from the popular imagination is that of the "Grand Goule": Half snake half dragon, this mythological animal had set up shop on the subterranean confines of the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, in Poitiers.
After having sown terror throughout the town, the terrifying beast was overpowered by the courageous Sainte Radegonde.