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Stories and Folk-lore of West Cornwall

Stories and Folk-lore of West Cornwall

by William Bottrell

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Author
Bottrell, William, 1816-1881
Title
Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series
Original Publication
Penzance: Printed for the Author by F. Rodda, 1880.
Credits
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 Cornell University Digital Collections)
Language
English
LoC Class
GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
Subject
Cornish language -- Dictionaries -- English
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 75799
Release Date
April 5, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.STORIES AND FOLK-LORE OF WEST CORNWALL
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.ERRATA.
  5. 5.LEGENDS OF LADOCK.
  6. 6.THE PRIZE WRESTLER AND DEMON.
  7. 7.THE FEATHERED FIEND.
  8. 8.THE GHOSTS OF KENEGIE.
  9. 9.LAYING WILD HARRIS’S GHOST.
  10. 10.CORNISH CASTLES.
  11. 11.THE HAUNTED LAWYER.
  12. 12.HALLANTIDE: OR A ST. JUST FEAST FIFTY YEARS AGO.
  13. 13.MILL STORIES.
  14. 14.A POOR TINNER’S FEAST.
  15. 15.AN OLD DROLL ABOUT A POOR TINNER’S FEAST.
  16. 16.A MADRON FEAST OF FIFTY YEARS AGO.
  17. 17.ZENNOR HEARTHSIDE STORIES.
  18. 18.THE SEAMAN’S GHOST.
  19. 19.THE OLD WOMAN’S GHOST.
  20. 20.THE MUTTON FEAST AT ST. IVES.
  21. 21.THE WITCH OF KERROW.
  22. 22.FAIRIES ON THE EASTERN GREEN.
  23. 23.THE LAST THREATENED INVASION: COMMOTION AND FALSE ALARM IN THE WEST.
  24. 24.MAL TRELOARE AND SANDRY KEMP KISS AND BECOME GOOD FRIENDS AGAIN: OR BACKBITING CRULL OUTWITTED.
  25. 25.THE THREE GEESE.
  26. 26.THE EARL OF STAIRS’ SON.
  27. 27.FROM PENZANCE TO CARN GALVA: NOTEWORTHY OBJECTS BY THE WAY. — Madron. — Madron Well. — Madron Chapel. — Lanyon Quoit. — Lanyon Town Place and House. — The Crick-stone. — Men Scryfa (written stone.) — The Four Parishes. — The Giant of Carn Galva — Ding-Dong, Wheal Malkin, and Pusser Hosking’s Moils.
  28. 28.THE PENZANCE OF OUR GRANDFATHERS. — The Old Market-House, and its Surroundings. — The Battle of Architectural Styles. — The Self-Taught Architect of the Land’s End. — The Bustle of a Market Day. — Madam Trezillian’s Head-Dress. — The Ancient Fish-Women of Penzance. — The School-Days and Home of Pellew. — The Western Approach to Penzance (Alverton Lane.) — Parson Spry, the Curate of Sennen and St. Levan, Half a Century Ago, and His Wooden Horse and Dog “Sport.” — “Sport’s” Behaviour at Church and in Churchyard. — The Rev. James Bevan. — Country Clerks and Country Choirs. — Old Christmas Carols. — Ancient Mode of Conducting Funerals. — Former Means of Information Among the People. — The Astrologers of the West. — Conjurors and their Spells. — Old Justice Jones and Cheap Labour. — The Vingoes of Treville.—The Justice’s Punishment. — Pellew and His Cornish Crew. — The Ancient Games of Hurling and Wrestling. — Old Methods of Conveyance. — Riding Pillion. — Popular Songs of the Times, Marlbrook, and Sentimental Ditties. — Green Lanes and Footpaths. — Packsaddles, Ox-Butts, and the First Carriage. — Going to Town on Market Day. — Penzance in the Early Part of this Century, &c. — An Old-Fashioned Greeting.
  29. 29.THE GHOSTS OF CHAPEL-STREET AND St. MARY’S CHAPEL-YARD.
  30. 30.LOCAL NICKNAMES. — Camborne Merry-geeks and Market-jew Crows. — Ludgvan Hurlers and Gulval Bulls. — Moushal Cut-throats and Newlyn Buckas. — Sancras Pigs and Buryan Boars. — St. Levan Witches and Sennen ——. — Santust Fuggans and Morvah Chick-chacks. — Nancledrea Rats and Zennor Goats. — Towednack Cuckoos and St. Ives Hakes.
  31. 31.( RE-PRINTED BY DESIRE. )
  32. 32.THE GHOST-LAYER.
  33. 33.CORNISH DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO OLD MEN.
  34. 34.A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GRACEY PENROSE AND MALLY TREVISKY.
  35. 35.CHRISTMAS CAROLS.
  36. 36.ANCIENT MIDSUMMER CUSTOMS.
  37. 37.THE “HILLA.”
  38. 38.THE ANCIENT CORNISH LANGUAGE IN THE COLONIES.
  39. 39.ACCORDING HOW ET MAY DROP.
  40. 40.“SA! SA!”
  41. 41.CORNISH OBSERVANCES WITH REGARD TO THE SUN AND MOON.
  42. 42.CORNISH CONJURORS’ CHARMS AGAINST WITCHCRAFT.
  43. 43.ALL ON ONE SIDE, LIKE SMOOTHY’S WEDDING.
  44. 44.PISKIES, SPRIGGANS, SMALL PEOPLE, AND KNOCKERS.
  45. 45.OLD CORNISH WORDS.
  46. 46.GLOSSARY OF LOCAL WORDS.
  47. 47.SUBSCRIBERS’ NAMES.
  48. 48.Colophon — Revision History — Corrections

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