Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series
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- STORIES AND FOLK-LORE OF WEST CORNWALL
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- ERRATA.
- LEGENDS OF LADOCK.
- THE PRIZE WRESTLER AND DEMON.
- THE FEATHERED FIEND.
- THE GHOSTS OF KENEGIE.
- LAYING WILD HARRIS’S GHOST.
- CORNISH CASTLES.
- THE HAUNTED LAWYER.
- HALLANTIDE: OR A ST. JUST FEAST FIFTY YEARS AGO.
- MILL STORIES.
- A POOR TINNER’S FEAST.
- AN OLD DROLL ABOUT A POOR TINNER’S FEAST.
- A MADRON FEAST OF FIFTY YEARS AGO.
- ZENNOR HEARTHSIDE STORIES.
- THE SEAMAN’S GHOST.
- THE OLD WOMAN’S GHOST.
- THE MUTTON FEAST AT ST. IVES.
- THE WITCH OF KERROW.
- FAIRIES ON THE EASTERN GREEN.
- THE LAST THREATENED INVASION: COMMOTION AND FALSE ALARM IN THE WEST.
- MAL TRELOARE AND SANDRY KEMP KISS AND BECOME GOOD FRIENDS AGAIN: OR BACKBITING CRULL OUTWITTED.
- THE THREE GEESE.
- THE EARL OF STAIRS’ SON.
- FROM PENZANCE TO CARN GALVA: NOTEWORTHY OBJECTS BY THE WAY.
- Madron.
- Madron Well.
- Madron Chapel.
- Lanyon Quoit.
- Lanyon Town Place and House.
- The Crick-stone.
- Men Scryfa (written stone.)
- The Four Parishes.
- The Giant of Carn Galva
- Ding-Dong, Wheal Malkin, and Pusser Hosking’s Moils.
- THE PENZANCE OF OUR GRANDFATHERS.
- The Old Market-House, and its Surroundings.
- The Battle of Architectural Styles.
- The Self-Taught Architect of the Land’s End.
- The Bustle of a Market Day.
- Madam Trezillian’s Head-Dress.
- The Ancient Fish-Women of Penzance.
- The School-Days and Home of Pellew.
- The Western Approach to Penzance (Alverton Lane.)
- Parson Spry, the Curate of Sennen and St. Levan, Half a Century Ago, and His Wooden Horse and Dog “Sport.”
- “Sport’s” Behaviour at Church and in Churchyard.
- The Rev. James Bevan.
- Country Clerks and Country Choirs.
- Old Christmas Carols.
- Ancient Mode of Conducting Funerals.
- Former Means of Information Among the People.
- The Astrologers of the West.
- Conjurors and their Spells.
- Old Justice Jones and Cheap Labour.
- The Vingoes of Treville.—The Justice’s Punishment.
- Pellew and His Cornish Crew.
- The Ancient Games of Hurling and Wrestling.
- Old Methods of Conveyance. Riding Pillion. Popular Songs of the Times, Marlbrook, and Sentimental Ditties.
- Green Lanes and Footpaths.
- Packsaddles, Ox-Butts, and the First Carriage.
- Going to Town on Market Day.
- Penzance in the Early Part of this Century, &c.
- An Old-Fashioned Greeting.
- THE GHOSTS OF CHAPEL-STREET AND St. MARY’S CHAPEL-YARD.
- LOCAL NICKNAMES.
- Camborne Merry-geeks and Market-jew Crows.
- Ludgvan Hurlers and Gulval Bulls.
- Moushal Cut-throats and Newlyn Buckas.
- Sancras Pigs and Buryan Boars.
- St. Levan Witches and Sennen ——.
- Santust Fuggans and Morvah Chick-chacks.
- Nancledrea Rats and Zennor Goats.
- Towednack Cuckoos and St. Ives Hakes.
- A CORNISH DROLL: BETTY TODDY AND HER GOWN. (RE-PRINTED BY DESIRE.)
- THE GHOST-LAYER.
- CORNISH DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO OLD MEN.
- A DIALOGUE BETWEEN GRACEY PENROSE AND MALLY TREVISKY.
- CHRISTMAS CAROLS.
- ANCIENT MIDSUMMER CUSTOMS.
- THE “HILLA.”
- THE ANCIENT CORNISH LANGUAGE IN THE COLONIES.
- ACCORDING HOW ET MAY DROP.
- CORNISH WORDS IN USE. “SA! SA!”
- CORNISH OBSERVANCES WITH REGARD TO THE SUN AND MOON.
- CORNISH CONJURORS’ CHARMS AGAINST WITCHCRAFT.
- ALL ON ONE SIDE, LIKE SMOOTHY’S WEDDING.
- PISKIES, SPRIGGANS, SMALL PEOPLE, AND KNOCKERS.
- OLD CORNISH WORDS.
- GLOSSARY OF LOCAL WORDS.
- SUBSCRIBERS’ NAMES.
- Colophon
- Revision History
- Corrections
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