Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore

About this eBook

Author

Courtney, M. A. (Margaret Ann), 1834-1920

Credits

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Fasts and feasts -- England -- Cornwall (County)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54637

Release Date

April 30, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CORNISH FEASTS AND “FEASTEN” CUSTOMS. — ‘ The Morning-Song.
4. 4.LEGENDS OF PARISHES, ETC. — Cornwall Stone.
5. 5.FAIRIES.
6. 6.Miners’, Sailors ’, Farmers ’.
7. 7.CHARMS, Etc. — For Tetters. — Toothache. — For a Strain. — For Ague. — For Wildfire (Erysipelas).
8. 8.CORNISH GAMES. — Pray, pretty Miss. — “ Friskee, friskee, I was, and I was. ” — “ Fool, fool, come to School. ” — “ Scat ” (Cornish for “slap”). — Hole in the Wall. — Malaga, Malaga Raisins (a forfeit game). — She Said, and She Said. — Drop the Handkerchief. — How Many Miles to Babylon? — Rules of Contrary. — Lady Queen Anne. — Old Witch. — Ghost at the Well. — Mother, Mother, may I go out to Play? — Here I sit on a cold green Bank. — Joggle along. — The Jolly Miller , — Bobby Bingo. — Weigh the Butter, weigh the Cheese , — Libbety, libbety, libbety-lat. — Ship Sail — Buck shee, buck , — Accroshay. — Buckey-how. — Cutters and Trucklers (Smugglers). — Marble Playing — Cock-haw. — Winky-eye. — Uppa, Uppa Holye (pronounced oopa, oopa holly). — Tom Toddy ,
9. 9.BALLADS, Etc. — John Dory. — An Old Ballad , — ON A DUKE OF CORNWALL’S DAUGHTER; — WHO AFTER HER MARRIAGE TO A KING OF ALBION, WAS DIVORCED FOR THE SAKE OF A FAVOURITE MISTRESS; AND HER EXEMPLARY REVENGE ON THEM BOTH. — Ye Sexes give ear. — A Fox went forth. — Tweedily, Tweedily, Twee (North Cornwall). — When shall we be Married? — Sweet Nightingale. — The Stout Cripple of Cornwall. — The Baarley Mow (a harvest song). — The Long Hundred. — Elicompane. — Uncle Jan Dory.
10. 10.ADDENDA.
11. 11.INDEX.
12. 12.Table of Contents
13. 13.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Catalog entries — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections — Abbreviations

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