Draft:Landais Stilt-Walkers

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• Comment: Promising draft, but the critical lack of inline citations is a huge issue. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 09:23, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: This is a promising draft! I suggest adding more contemporary sources though—most of the article lack inline citations, which slow down review time. Ca ^{talk to me!} 15:23, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Landais stilt-walkers (French: échassiers landais) were inhabitants of Landes, France notable for their use of stilts for traversing the land. Landais stilt-walkers were mostly shepherds and remain a cultural symbol of Landes.

Stilts had many benefits to the pastoral lifestyle in the moors of Landes. Stilts afforded shepherds a higher vantage point to watch over their flock. In addition they permitted the wearer to step over patches of mud and small streams that were common in the marshy terrain. Walking on stilts kept one's feet dry and helped avoid thorny plants such as gorse. They also lengthened the wearers stride allowing for a faster pace than normal walking. The practice declined at the end of the 19th century due to afforestation efforts in Landes that rendered stilts less useful and the terrain unsuitable for shepherding.