4 THE VENUS OF QUINIPILY (Baud, Morbihan, Brittany, France)

This 2 meters high granite statue is located in the wall remains of the now destroyed castle of Quinipily above a fountain. It’s one of the few pagan goddess statues remaining in Europe.

It used to be in another hamlet where it was the object of a pagan worship.
Offerings were given by farmers, it was touched to be healed, young people who wanted to get married used to have wrong lustful behaviours in front of it …

It is easy to understand that the clergymen wanted to destroy it. They tried several times with no success. Then they decided to throw it in the Blavet river (1661 and 1690) but again the farmers discovered it and started again to worship it.
The statue moved in Quinipily after a trial in 1701 between two local landlords who wanted the Venus.