Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Vol. ...
Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Vol. 2, by William Bottrell, [1873]
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| 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 | 185 |
| Old Songs and Nicknames | 193 |
| The Changeling of Brea-Vean (fairy tale) | 199 |
| Betty Stoggs's Baby (fairy tale) | 205 |
| How a Morvah man bought clothes for his wife | 207 |
| How a Zennor man choked himself, but had his will in his pocket | 210 |
| The Smugglers of Penrose | 212 |
| Tregagle at Gwenvor Cove | 224 |
| West Country Superstitions.—Devil's Money | 227 |
| The Slighted Damsel of Gwinear | 229 |
| The Wreck of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel | 231 |
| A Night's Ride to Scilly | 233 |
| Ancient Bridal Customs | 237 |
| Ancient Rites at Madron Well | 239 |
| The Crick-stone, or Men-an-tol | 242 |
| Charms | 243 |
| The Fairy Tribes | 245 |
| The Pirate Wrecker and the Death-Ship | 247 |
| The sun never shines on those who have sworn away a life | 249 |
| A Legend of Pengersec | 251 |
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| Notes, Illustrative Anecdotes, &c.—Miracle Plays | 268 |
| The Levelis, or Lovells, of Trewoof | 271 |
| Duffy and the Devil | 273 |
| Pendrea and Baranhuel | 274 |
| Danes Marauding on the Cornish Coast, and King Olaf's Conversion at Scilly | 274 |
| St. Levan's Path | 277 |
| A Ghostly Ship's-Bell | 277 |
| Vellan-Dreath | 279 |
| The Men-an-Tol | 280 |
| The Garrack-zans | 283 |
| Divination by Rushes and Ivy-leaves | 283 |
| Recent Ill-wishing | 284 |
| Midsummer Bonfires | 287 |
| The Mermaid of Zennor | 288 |
| Glossary of Living Cornish Words and Local Terms | 290 |
| Index | 293 |
| Subscribers’ Names | 296 |
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