Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second SeriesBottrell, William
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Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series
Bottrell, William
Cornwall (England : County) -- Social life and customs; Legends -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Bewitching a dairy, 65
Bob 'o the Carn (fairy tale), 173
Boleit, ancient monuments of, 29
Books popular in the West Country a century ago, 197
Boscawen-un circle, 34
Boskenna, 36
Boslow, the Piskey of, 158
Brea, or Bray, 42, 200, 278
Brea-Vean, the Changeling of (fairy tale), 200
Breage, St., visits her brother, St. Levan, 145
Bridal customs, ancient, still in vogue, 237
Buccaneering, 45
Bucka, offerings to, 187, 246
Buryan fair, 39
——— Sanctuary, men of, 269
——— wise-woman or fortune-teller of, 47
Calling of the cleeves, 216
Cardews of Boskenna, the last of, 38
Castle Treen, traditions of 130, 138
—— Maen, or Men, 127
Changeling of Brea-Vean, 200
———— how to get rid of one, 202
Chapel Uny Well, 199
Charms, 243
Chyannor, Tom of, the tin-streamer, 72
Chynance, 116
Clarice de Boleit, inscription on her tomb, 29
Conjurors, pellars, or wise-men, 20, 76, 276
Crick-stone, the, or Men-an-tol, 242
Cursing Psalm, the, 229, 231
Danes, traditions of their incursions, 127, 141, 274
Daunce-Mayn, 33
Death-ship, the, 248
Demon, a, spinning, 5
Den-an-Dynas, the giant and his wife, 137
Devil's money, 227
Divination, 131, 217, 245, 283
Doctresses of the West Country, 49
Duffy and a Devil, an old guise-dance, 1
Enchanter, the, of Pengersec, 263
———— of Maen and a thief, 265, 267
Escols, a strong man of, 31
—— weavers of, 196
Faction fight in Buryan Church-town, 215
Fairy dwelling on Selena Moor, 94
—— fair, 161
—— master, the, 173
—— tales, 73, 94, 102, 154, 168, 173, 185, 200
Fairies, how they may be driven away, 75
——— old folks' notions respecting, 101, 245
Flowers, planting on graves, an old West Country custom, 114
Fortune-tellers, 49, 276
Garrack-zans, 77, 150
Ghost stories, 122, 152, 217, 230
—— laying, 124
Ghostly ship's-bell, a, 277
Giants of Castle Treen, 131, 137
Goblins of the Mines, 187
Guise-dances, how performed, 2
Gulthise (harvest feast), 95
Gwinear, the slighted damsel of, 229
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Haunted houses, 122, 212
Hella-point, mermaids of, 151
Hell-hounds, 66
Heimskringla, the, of Snorri Surlusson, account in of Northmen marauding Cornwall, &c., 274
Hilla-ridden, 236
Holed stones, 31, 242, 280
Hooper of Cowloe, the, 247
Hostess, the, of Market-jew, 82
Hurling, 24
Husbandry, old, 195
I'ans, their house in Treen, 103
—— ghosts of, 122
—— a Breton descendant of, 125
Ill-wishing, 63, 65, 285, 286
Ivy-leaves and rushes, divination by, 217, 283
Johanna, the foolish, her garden, 146
——— rebukes St. Levan for fishing on a Sunday, 148
Just, St., feast of, 154, 170
Kaerkeis bowjey, 127
Key, the, of Castle Treen, 130
Knackers of Ballowal (fairy tale), 185
Levan, St., legends of, 145
———— stone, 147
———— his path, 146, 272
———— witches, 139
Long stones, or Menheeres of Boleit, 30
————— places named from numerous, 31
Lovell, Madam, her troubles, 21
—— or Levelis, family of, 271
Loyal hearts of Buryan, 69
Madron well and chapel, 239
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