NORTH CORNWALL FAIRIES AND LEGENDS By ENYS TREGARTHEN Author of 'The Piskey-Purse' With introduction by Howard Fox, F.G.S. Illustrated London Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd. 3, Paternoster Buildings, E.C. CONTENTS Page Introduction xi The Adventures of a Piskey in Search of his Laugh 1 The Legend of the Padstow Doombar 51 The Little Cake-bird 71 The Impounded Crows 99 The Piskeys' Revenge 113 The Old Sky Woman 125 Reefy, Reefy Rum 131 The Little Horses and Horsemen of Padstow 139 How Jan Brewer was Piskey-laden 149 The Small People's Fair 159 The Piskeys who did Aunt Betsy's Work 165 The Piskeys Who carried their Beds 177 The Fairy Whirlwind 183 Notes 189 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Tintagel Castle Frontispiece King Arthur's Castle, looking North 9 Tintagel Castle 15 By Rough Tor's granite-piled height the bright little Lantern went 21 'Night-riders, Night-riders, please stop!' 37 'Which is still called King Arthur's Seat' 45 Lifeboat going over the bar of doom 53 Tristram Bird could see over the maiden's head into the pool 55 Trebetherick Bay 62 Chapel Stile 65 'It is the Mermaid's wraith,' cried an old Granfer man 67 Tregoss Moor 73 On the way to Tamsin's Cottage 75 'I hear them laughing. Listen, Grannie!' 83 The Roche Rocks 85 He stepped on to Phillida's nose as light as the feathers of the old Sky Woman 91 'All the crows in the parish came as they were bidden' 101 'Perhaps you would like to hear the crows' version