Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Vol. 2, by William Bottrell, [1873], at sacred-texts.com
INDEX
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Ancient Bridal Customs 237
— Coins found at Castle Maen 127
— Mariners' Stories 149
A night's ride to Scilly 233
Ballowal, the knockers of (fairy tale) 185
Baranhuel, a Queen's visit to 67
— fairies’ cow 73
Beatrice I’an, or Ivan 104
— her death 118
Betty Stoggs's baby (fairy tale) 205
Bevan, the Rev. James 197
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-Vean, the Changeling of (fairy tale) 200
Breage, St., visits her brother, St. Levan 145
Bridal customs, ancient, still in vogue 237
Buccaneering, 45
Buryan fair 39
— Sanctuary, men of 269
— wise-woman or fortune teller of 47
Calling of the sleeves 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
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
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 Churchtown 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 drive away 75
— old folks’ notions respecting 101, 245
Flowers, planting on graves, an old West Country custom 114
Ghost stories 122, 162, 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
Hella-point, mermaids of 151
Hell-hounds 66
Heimskringla, the, of Snorri Surlusson, account in of Northmen marauding Cornwall, &c. 274
Hilla-ridden 236
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
Ivy-leaves and rushes, divination by 217, 283
Johanna, the foolish, her garden 146
— rebukes St. Levan for fishing on a Sunday 148
Kaerkeis bowjey 127
Key, the, of Castle Treen 130
Knackers of Ballowal (fairy tale) 185
Levan, St., legends of 145
— stone; 147
— 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
Marriage usages, ancient 237, 239
Mayor of Market-jew, a 83
Merchants of Treen, the 81
Mermaid of Zennor, the 288
Midsummer bonfires 287
Miracle-plays, performed at Sancreed 269
Morvah man, a, shopping 207
Nelly Wearne, the story of 38
Nicknames 198
Night's ride, a, to Scilly 233
Noy, Mr. William, in a fairy dwelling 97
Noy, Madam, and the witch 63
— family of 274
Olaf, the first Christian king of Norway, his conversion at Scilly 275
Parchapel well 148
Parcurnow, traditions of 140
Pargwartha, legend of 149
Parish clerks sixty years ago 169
— Penance, doing in Buryan Church 55
Penberth, a cottage dwelling at 111
Pendar, Madam, receiving a Queen 68
Pengersec, legends of 251
— the magician 264
Penrose, the smugglers of 212
— family 223
Phantom lover, a, takes off his affianced 152
Piskey, how he left Boslow 168
— led 160
— threshing 159
Plan-an-guarre, St. Just 268
Polkinghorne, Parson, an exorcist 125
Queen's, a, visit to Baranhuel 67
Robbers, the, and merchants of Treen 87
Roskestal, Garrack-zans in 148, 151
Rosemodrass, monuments of 27
Sanctuary men of Buryan 260
"Sancras," miracle-play at 269
Scilly, a night's ride to 233
visited by King Olaf 275
Selena Moor, a fairy dwelling on 94
Shovel, Admiral Sir Cloudesley, his wreck at Scilly 231
— his grave 233
Slighted damsel, the, of Gwinear 229
Small-people, see fairies.
— the, of Penrose 212
Sweethearts’ Cove, the 149
Sun, the, never shines on a person that has sworn way a life 249
Tarraway, the spinning demon 16
Tinners’ stories 185
Tolmen of Constantine, the 280
Tom Trenoweth's bewitched sow 61
of Chyannor, the tin-streamer 77
— gets three pieces of wisdom in lieu of wages 80
his welcome home 89
Tredrill, the Changeling 201
Treen, a market town, in old times 78
— the I’an's house of 103
Dynas 127
Tregagle bound to Gwenvor 224
— the roaring of 226
Uncle Will Ben's fiddle and sayings 170
Vellan Dreath, the burning of 279
— spirit of the 167
Weddings, old fashioned customs at 237, 239
Wells, holy 128, 148, 239, 201
Wetherel, Capt., his grave and ghostly ship's-bell 277
White hare, an injured woman's spirit takes the form of a 253
Wise-woman, the, of Buryan Church-town 47
Witches 12, 59, 63, 65, 75, 139, 255, 265
Zennor man's will, a 210
— mermaid of 288
