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Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series
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Title: Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series
Author: William Bottrell
Release Date: January 2, 2013 [eBook #41761]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRADITIONS AND HEARTHSIDE STORIES OF WEST CORNWALL, SECOND SERIES***
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TRADITIONS
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"Of strange tradition many a mystic trace,
Legend and vision, prophecy and sign."
Scott.
Contents.
| PAGE | ||
| Duffy and the Devil (an old Christmas Play) | 1 | |
| Celtic Monuments of Boleigh and Rosemodrass | 27 | |
| The last Cardews of Boskenna and the story of Nelly Wearne | 36 | |
| The Witch of Buryan Church-town | 59 | |
| Madam Noy and the Witch | 63 | |
| A Queen's visit to Baranhuel | 67 | |
| The Small People's Cow (a fairy tale) | 73 | |
| Tom of Chyannor, the tin-streamer (a West Country droll) | 77 | |
| The Fairy Dwelling on Selena Moor | 94 | |
| The I'an's House of Treen | 103 | |
| Castle Treen and its Legends | 130 | |
| Traditions of Parcurnow | 140 | |
| Legends of St. Levan | 145 | |
| A Legend of Pargwarra | 149 | |
| An' Pee Tregeer's trip to market on Hallan Eve (a fairy tale) | 154 | |
| An Overseer and a Parish Clerk of St. Just, sixty years ago | 169 | |
| The Fairy Master, or Bob o' the Carn | 173 | |
| A Tinner's fireside stories.— | ||
| The Knockers of Ballowal | ||