Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series

About this eBook

Author

Bottrell, William, 1816-1881

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Veronika Redfern, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Cornwall (England : County) -- Social life and customs

Category

Text

eBook-No.

41761

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41761

Release Date

January 2, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRADITIONS AND HEARTHSIDE STORIES OF WEST CORNWALL.
2. 2.Contents.
3. 3.Stories and Traditions of Penwith.
4. 4.DUFFY AND THE DEVIL. — Part First.
5. 5.DUFFY AND THE DEVIL. — Part Second.
6. 6.Celtic Monuments of Boleigh and Rosemodrass. — Boleigh or Boleit. — Menheres. — Holed Stones , &c.
7. 7.The last Cardew, of Boskenna, and the Story of Nelly Wearne. — Story of Nelly Wearne.
8. 8.The Witch of Burian Church-town.
9. 9.The Story of Madam Noy.
10. 10.A Modern Sancreed Witch.
11. 11.A Queen's Visit to Baranhual.
12. 12.The Small People's Cow.
13. 13.Tom of Chyannor, the Tin-Streamer. A West-Country Droll.
14. 14.The Fairy Dwelling on Selena Moor. [3]
15. 15.The I'an's House of Treen. — The I'ans quit Treen. — Unexpected Visitors. — The Proud Pendars. — The I'an's Ghosts.
16. 16.Castle Treen and its Legends. — The Key of the Castle. — Giants of Castle Treen. — Dan Dynas. — The Small People (Fairies). — St. Levan Witches.
17. 17.Traditions of Parcurno.
18. 18.Legends of St. Levan. — St. Levan and his Sister. — Johanna's Garden. — The St. Levan Stone. — Parchapel Well.
19. 19.A Legend of Pargwarra. — The Tragedy of Sweet William and Fair Nancy.
20. 20.An' Pee Tregeer's Trip to Market on Hallan Eve. — Pendeen of Old. — How Piskey Left Boslow.
21. 21.An Overseer and a Parish Clerk of St. Just about sixty years ago.
22. 22.The Fairy Master, or Bob o' the Carn.
23. 23.A Tinner's Fireside Stories. — The Knockers of Ballowal. — Tom and the Knackers. — Old Songs and Nicknames. — An Excursion to Chapel Uny Well, With a Legend of the Changeling of Brea Vean. — The Changeling of Brea Vean. — Betty Stogs's Baby. [4]
24. 24.How a Morvah Man Bought Clothes for his Wife. [4]
25. 25.How a Zennor Man Choked Himself, but had his Will in his Pocket. [4]
26. 26.The Smugglers of Penrose. — Part the First. — Part the Second.
27. 27.Tregagle.
28. 28.West Country Superstitions. — Devil's Money. — The Slighted Damsel of Gwinear. — The Wreck of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel. — A Night's Ride to Scilly. — Ancient Bridal Customs. — Madron Well. — The Crick-Stone, or Men-an-tol. — Charms. — The Fairy Tribes. — Mermaids and the Hooper. — The Wrecker and the Death Ship. — The Sun Never Shines on Those Who Have " Sworn Away a Life ."
29. 29.A Legend of Pengersec.
30. 30.Notes, Illustrative Anecdotes, &c. — Miracle Plays, Christmas Plays, &c. Page 1 . — The Levelis, of Trewoof. — Duffy and the Devil. Page 3 . — Pendre and Baranhual. Pages 63 , 73 , and 94 . — The Danes Landing on the Cornish Coast For Plunder. Pages 127 - 141 . — St. Levan's Path. Page 146 . — A Ghostly Ship's-Bell. — Brea and Pendeen, in St. Just. Pages 42 , 166 , and 200 . — The Burning of Vellan-Dreath. Page 215 . — The Men-an-tol, Constantine Tolmen , &c. Page 242 . — The Garrack Zans (Holy Rock.) — Divination by Rushes and Ivy-leaves. Page 217 . — Recent Ill-wishing. Page 65 . — Midsummer Bonfires. — The Mermaid of Zennor.
31. 31.Glossary of Local Words.
32. 32.Index.
33. 33.Subscribers' Names.
34. 34.Footnotes
35. 35.ERRATA.
36. 36.Transcriber's Note

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