Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: A Flight of Witches.] POPULAR ROMANCES OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND; OR, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall. COLLECTED AND EDITED BY ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S. [Illustration] SECOND SERIES. LONDON: JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY. 1865. [_Right of Translation is reserved._] “‘Have you any stories like that, gudewife?’ “‘Ah,’ she said; ‘there were plenty of people that could tell those stories once. I used to hear them telling them over the fire at night; but people is so changed with pride now, that they care for nothing.’” CAMPBELL. LONDON: JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY. CONTENTS. PAGE THE SAINTS. 1. Legends of the Saints, 3 2. The Crowza Stones, 5 3. The Longstone, 7 4. St Sennen and St Just, 8 5. Legends of St Leven— The Saint and Johana, 9 The Saint’s Path, 10 The St Leven Stone, 10 The Two Breams, 11 10. St Keyne, 12 11. St Dennis’s Blood, 15 12. St Kea’s Boat, 16 13. St German’s Well, 17 14. How St Piran reached Cornwall, 19 15. St Perran, the Miner’s Saint, 20 16. The Discovery of Tin, 21 17. St Neot, the Pigmy, 22 18. St Neot and the Fox, 23 19. St Neot and the Doe, 23 20. St Neot and the Thieves, 24 21. St Neot and the Fishes, 25