Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall

Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall

William Bottrell, (1816-1881)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Motto

- Duffy And The Devil

- Celtic Monuments Of Boleigh And Rosemodrass

- The Last Cardew, Of Boskenna, And The Story Of Nelly Wearne

- The Witch Of Burian Church Town

- A Queen's Visit To Baranhual

- The Small People's Cow

- Tom Of Chyannor, The Tin Streamer

- A West Country Droll

- The Fairy Dwelling On Selena Moor

- The I'an's House Of Treen

- The I'ans Quit Treen

- Unexpected Visitors

- The Proud Pendars

- The I'an's Ghosts

- Castle Treen And Its Legends

- The Key Of The Castle

- Giants Of Castle Treen

- Dan Dynas

- The Small People

- Traditions Of Parcurno

- Legends Of St Levan

- St Levan And His Sister

- Johanna's Garden

- The St Levan Stone

- Parchapel Well

- A Legend Of Pargwarra

- The Tragedy Of Sweet William And Fair Nancy

- An' Pee Tregeer's Trip To Market On Hallan Eve

- Pendeen Of Old

- How Piskey Left Boslow

- An Overseer And A Parish Clerk Of St Just About Sixty Years Ago

- The Fairy Master, Or Bob O' The Carn

- 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

- The Changeling Of Brea Vean

- Betty Stogs's Baby

- How A Morvah Man Bought Clothes For His Wife

- How A Zennor Man Choked Himself But Had His Will In His Pocket

- The Smugglers Of Penrose

- Tregagle

- 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

- A Legend Of Pengersec

- Notes Illustrative Anecdotes Etc

- Miracle Plays Christmas Plays Etc

- The Levelis Of Trewoof

- Duffy And The Devil

- Pendre And Baranhual

- The Danes Landing On The Cornish Coast For Plunder

- St Levan's Path

- A Ghostly Ship's Bell

- Brea And Pendeen In St Just

- The Burning Of Vellan Dreath

- The Men An Tol Constantine Tolmen Etc

- The Garrack Zans

- Divination By Rushes And Ivy Leaves

- Recent Ill Wishing

- Midsummer Bonfires

- The Mermaid Of Zennor

- Footnotes