{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe268.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe268.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe268.htm","text":"THE MUTTON FEAST.\nAN old tradition--the particulars of which I have failed to recover--says that a flock of sheep were blown from the Gwithian Sands over into St Ives Bay, and that the St Ives fishermen caught them,-- believing them to be a new variety of fish,--either in their nets, or with hook and line, and brought them ashore as their night's catch.\nI learn that Mr Fortescue Hitchins, some fifty or sixty years since, wrote a \"copy of verses\" on this tradition, but I have never seen this production.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Popular Superstitions: The Mutton Feast","type":"page"}