Country pagan

the Country pagan is a country extending on the septentrional littoral fringe from the Finistere, in the middle of the Leon. Its name comes from country Latin paganus meaning, and by extension: pagan (campaigns having been most hermetic a long time with the efforts of evangelization).

Localization

The term of Country pagan is generally used to designate the coastal strip stretching Guissény until Kerlouan, this limitation is however vague, prone to debate, and for some the Country pagan extends from Tréflez until the Aber S and Plouguerneau.

History

The Country pagan is known for its shredded littoral and its rock shelves at the origin of many shipwrecks and of the bad reputation of its inhabitants who, very poor, are shown to actuate the ships on the rocks to plunder their wrecks. This practice known as of the " right of naufrage" is prohibited by Colbert in 1681 and of the guardrooms are then installed on the littoral, as in Kerlouan, where a turret is embedded on a hillock in the middle of the rocks of Meneham.

Today, this past is exploited to sell the tourist charms of the " Coast of the legends ".

Economy

The Country pagan saw tourism and market-gardening agriculture. The Goémon, and more precisely the pioka (or " lichen of mer") is collected the weeks of spring tides and is sold with cosmetic industries.

Traditions

The identity " paganiz" has been proposed for a few years to affirm a cultural originality (" carnival pagan" of Plounéour-Trez) but in the facts this personality is marked little and its traditions and costumes are far from distant from those of the Low-Leon.

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