Forest of Scissy

The forest of Scissy ( Sessiacum ) is a mythical forest which would have existed in bay of the mount Saint-Michel and would have included the areas of:

Saint-Par-on-Sea with the abbey of Scissy.

Three mounts:

Tombelaine
the Mount Saint-Michel
the Mount Fraud

The Islands Chausey , from which the name would have the same root as Scissy

The name " Sessiacum" would come from the name of the Gallic Sessia, protective goddess of the sowing and germination.

There would have been a monument druidic on the Mount Saint-Michel, dependant on the fertility.

According to the legend, the thick forest of Scissy would have been a place of pagan worship. A Tidal wave (Tsunami? or does invasion marinade slower?) in the year 709 would have absorbed it to purify the region according to the legend. This time was characterized by a strong rise of marine water, probably following an increase in the received heat of the sun, and can be also following the consequences of a first small greenhouse effect induced by the destruction and burning by the Man of the forests of China, the Middle-East and to some extent of Italy and Spain in the 8000 previous years. According to the Revelatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis , written at the beginning of the century, the Mount Saint-Michel would have been a mount surrounded by one forest at the time where the first monks hermits settled there. It is only then - the increasing sea level - that it was transformed little by little into island.

Some relics of the historical forest (and perhaps to some extent prehistoric) of this zone were protected in 1982 by the classification from the Bois Dardennes from Ducey in Forêt from protection (on 80 ha).

See too

Forest of Scissy: Captions or reality?
the '' Revelatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis '' and its author
Site on the legends related to the imaginary Mount-Saint-Michel
Chart of the forest of Scissy
Bibliography of the Mount-Saint-Michel

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