Mêfie-té des monstres! (beware of monsters) is a new booklet of spooky stories in Jèrriais about some of the legends of Jersey. There are witches and wizards, monstrous animals, and other tales, all illustrated, and there's a list at the back of the trickiest Jèrriais words with their English equivalents.
36pp ISBN 978-0-9566289-0-9
Some vocabulary:
pendard = hangman
sanglieux = bloodthirsty
bigorgi = slit someone's throat
d'senchorchéler = release from spell
droque bête = headlong
r'vénant = ghost
trison = betrayal
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