Or the drolls, traditions and superstitions of Old Cornwall. The romances collected in this volume give the tourist the means of restoring the giants and the fairies to their native haunts. None of the legends found within were invented by the author. They were all gathered in their native homes, more than a century previously.
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IN wandering over some of the uncultivated tracts which still maintain their wilderness, austerely and sullenly, against the march of cultivation, we are certain of finding rude masses of rock which have some relation to the giants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sean lads, wonderful cobbler, church stile, wish hounds, parochial history, merry morning, chapel rock, fairy mythology, very recent period, white hare, thee art Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Land's End, King Arthur, Davies Gilbert, Scilly Islands, History of Cornwall, Mount's Bay, Walter Trewoofe, Carn Brea, Madam Noy, Survey of Cornwall, Earl of Cornwall, Every-Day Book, Ezekiel Grosse, Sarah Polgrain, Small Folk, Wayland Smith, Yorkshire Jack, Aant Blanch, Aunt Prudence, Madgy Figgy, Nine Maids, Pengerswick Castle, Squire Lovel, West of England, Chapel Porth New!
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IN wandering over some of the uncultivated tracts which still maintain their wilderness, austerely and sullenly, against the march of cultivation, we are certain of finding rude masses of rock which have some relation to the giants. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sean lads, wonderful cobbler, church stile, wish hounds, parochial history, merry morning, chapel rock, fairy mythology, very recent period, white hare, thee art Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Land's End, King Arthur, Davies Gilbert, Scilly Islands, History of Cornwall, Mount's Bay, Walter Trewoofe, Carn Brea, Madam Noy, Survey of Cornwall, Earl of Cornwall, Every-Day Book, Ezekiel Grosse, Sarah Polgrain, Small Folk, Wayland Smith, Yorkshire Jack, Aant Blanch, Aunt Prudence, Madgy Figgy, Nine Maids, Pengerswick Castle, Squire Lovel, West of England, Chapel Porth New!
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- The Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew on 8 pages
- Every-Day Book: Two Volumes Complete (Illustrated) by William Hone on 4 pages
- Popular Tales of the West Highlands (Vol. 1) by J. F. Campbell on 4 pages
- The History of Britain by John Milton on page 38, page 42, and page 304
- The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley on page 77, page 79, and page 148
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- Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro by Newbell Niles PH. D. Puckett on 11 pages
- Folktales of England (Folktales of the World) by Katharine M. Briggs on 5 pages
- RC Series Bundle: British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler (Routledge Classics) by Katharine Briggs on 4 pages
- Cornwall: A History by Philip Payton on 4 pages
- Horse in Magic and Myth by M. Oldfield Howey on page 50, page 91, and page 179
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