Abstract
Juvenile Ghosts The body of oral tales staging the relationship between a boy and afterlife forms a "Great Story" in which he who is vowed to the Devil or to Death ends up by dominating them and becomes a "Ghost passer". This exemplary plot - established from Occitanian versions - becomes significant only when related to the whole web of links with the next world with which all young boys must live. They can flirt with death without danger when they have learned to play on the value of things and on the meaning of words. Listening to tales at night plays a central part in acquiring this skill : do they not picture themselves as instruments of transition between this world and the next ?
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