Dalbec (folklore)
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Template:Short description Dalbec is a folk hero from traditional Quebec folklore. Some tales of Dalbec were published by the folklorist William Parker Greenough in Canadian Folk-Life and Folk-Lore (1897).
According to Greenough, he heard several folktales (or contes, as they were called) involving Dalbec, as told by a French-Canadian raconteur (storyteller), a guide named Nazaire. Dalbec was a hunter, and his adventures are invariably outlandish and concern amazing feats involving overpowering animals:
Along with Ti-Jean and the voyageur-hero Jean Cadieux, Dalbec is one of the most well-known characters of Quebec folklore.[1]
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Paul R. Magocsi, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples. University of Toronto Press. p. 391. ISBN 9780802029386.
