Ankou

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Ankou

gaunt driver of spectral cart; collects the dead. [Brittany Folklore: Leach, 62]

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Can Elenora befriend Morgana and discover a cure for death-by-mandrake before the Ankou ushers Merlin's spirit away for good?

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Eddie Vanderdoes is back after missing last season because of an injury, and Takkrist McKinley and Eli Ankou also return.

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Nothing works any longer because Ankou has taken, or almost, his soul, which is already clawing at the feathers on the wings of the archangel as they glide through the light-years of language.

from Demain je meurs (Today I Die, 2007)

O'r Banshee yn yr Iwerddon, y Toili yng Nghymru a'r Ankou yn Llydaw, gwae chi os dowch chi ar eu traws.

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7The Ankou: The Ankou is an omen of death found in Bretagne tradition.

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(7) His first short story, 'The Death of the Ankou', he claims, was written in Brittany as a by-product of his primary artistic activity, painting:

'The Death of the Ankou' was first published in 1927, in The Wild Body, a collection that mainly comprises revised versions of sketches and stories originating in Lewis's student travels and published in The English Review and The Tramp before the First World War.

First, that 'The Death of the Ankou' embodies an originating myth through which his artistic practice can be understood.

No one has previously identified the passage as the primordial 'sketch' from which 'The Death of the Ankou' developed.

Fortunately, 'The Death of the Ankou' is one of Lewis's most accessible stories, short, and with a fairly clear structure.

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Celtic Monsters uses animation from Oscar-nominated Joanna Quinn's Beryl Productions to illustrate banshees, dragons, serpents, demons and omens of death including the ankou.