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)
Page 196, "its" changed to "it's". (The rest I don't remember; it's
something about sceptred king's and beggar's dust coming to the same
pass.)
Page 199, "aulf" changed to "aulfe". (Says that the fairy left this
aulfe, ...)
Page 233, "parence" changed to "parece". (no parece sino que no nos
movemos de un lugar.)
Page 233, "Bein" changed to "Bien". (Bien es verdad que sentí que pasaba
por la region del aire, y aun que tocaba á la del fuego;)
Page 242, "scatica" changed to "sciatica". (In a croft belonging to
Lanyon farm, and about half a mile north of the town-place, there is a
remarkable group of three stones, the centre one of which is called by
antiquaries the Men-an-tol (holed stone), and by country folk the
Crick-stone, from an old custom--not yet extinct--of "crameing"
(crawling on all fours) nine times through the hole in the centre stone,
going against the sun's course, for the cure of lumbago, sciatica, and
other "cricks" and pains in the back.)
Page 273, missing "in" added. (The former of these subsequently married
Joseph Marke, of Woodhill, near Liskeard, gentleman, and jointly with
her sister in 1699, disposed of the property, contrary to the wish of
their cousin, Mr. Vosper, of Liskeard and Launcells.)
Page 276, "Ola" changed to "Olaf". (... he retained no more of his name
than that he was called Olaf, and was Russian.)
Page 279, "hisown" changed to "his own". (The Rev. Dr. William Borlase,
the celebrated antiquary and historian of his own county, who, by his
elaborate work, has raised to his own memory an enduring monument, was
born here.)
Page 282, "cicles" changed to "circles". (The holed stones at Kenidjac,
St. Just, are near ancient circles;)
Page 288, "wierd" changed to "weird". (We would gladly go many miles to
see the weird-looking, yet picturesque, dancers around the flames on a
carn, or high hill top, as we have seen them some forty years ago.)
Page 288, "apears" changed to "appears". (We are sorry to find that
another pleasing Midsummer's observance, which also appears to be
ancient, has almost died out.)
Page 293, "drive" changed to "driven". (Fairies, how they may be driven
away.)
Footnote 3 was originally unnumbered. Footnote numbers were added next
to the three stories which the footnote referred to.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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