A Quainte Compendium of Folke Belief is a two hundred-year-old book that was handwritten in octavo-sized pages.[1]
Description[]
The book is a collection of stories and superstitions gathered by an amateur historian in Vintas. The author had collected and organized the stories through years of research, and provided them with occasional brief commentaries about how beliefs seemed to change from region to region, without attempting to prove or disprove these beliefs.[1]
The contents of the volume include:[1]
- Four chapters about demons
- Three chapters about faeries, including one entirely devoted to tales of Felurian
- Pages on shamble-men, rendlings and the trow
- Songs about the grey ladies and white riders
- A lengthy section on barrow draugar
- Six chapters on folk magic, including eight ways to cure warts, twelve ways to talk to the dead and twenty-two love charms
- A half-page entry about the Chandrian[2]
In the Chronicle[]
During Kvothe's hunt for information about the Chandrian in the Archives, he found a single mention of them in A Quainte Compendium of Folke Belief. It was the best source of information he had managed to discover in over a hundred long hours of searching, but he was vastly disappointed when he found nothing in the entry that he didn't already know about the Chandrian.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Wise Man's Fear, Chapter 16: "Unspoken Fear"
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The Wise Man's Fear, Chapter 16: "Unspoken Fear"
- "Of the Chaendrian there is little to be said. Every Man knows of them. Every child chants their song. Yet folke tell no stories.
For the price of a small beer a Farmer will talk two hours on Dannerlings. But mention the Chaendrian and his mouth goes tight as a Spinner’s Asse and he is touching iron and pushing back his chair.
Many think it bad luck to speak of the Fae, yet still folke do. What makes the Chaendrian different I knowe notte. One rather drunk Tanner in the towne of Hillesborrow said in hushed tones, “If you talk of them, they come for you.” This seems the unspoken fear of these common folke.
So I write what I have gleaned, all common and inspecific. The Chaendrian are a groupe of various number. (Likely seven, given their name.) They appear and commit diverse violence for no clear reason.
There are signs which herald their Arrival, but there is no agreement as to these. Blue flame is the most common, but I have also heard of wine going sour, blindness, crops withering, unseasonable storms, miscarriage, and the sun going dark in the sky.
Altogether, I have found them a Frustrating and Profitless area of Inquirey." - ―Author of A Quainte Compendium of Folke Belief
- "Of the Chaendrian there is little to be said. Every Man knows of them. Every child chants their song. Yet folke tell no stories.