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Article: Night revels and werewolfery in Calvinist Guernsey.
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- Folklore
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- January 1, 1998
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This article deals with somewhat abstruse material from Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands.(1) These are in the Bay of Saint Malo, within sight of the Cotentin peninsula of Normandy. Although attached politically to the English Crown from the thirteenth century, the Islands remained in the Diocese of Coutances until the mid-sixteenth century, they retained the Norman customary law, and their populations spoke French and a Norman Frence patois. From the 1560s they experienced a Calvinist polity in church government; in Jersey until the 1620s, and in Guernsey until 1662. Secular government was concentrated in the separate jurisdictions of the Royal Courts of Guernsey and ...