Popular Romances of the West of England, Or, The Drolls, Traditions and Superstitions of Old Cornwall, المجلد 1John Camden Hotten, 1865 - 319 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة viii
... beautiful spring morning , I landed at Saltash , from the very ancient passage - boat , which in those days conveyed men and women , carts and cattle , across the river Tamar , where now that triumph of engineering , the Albert Bridge ...
... beautiful spring morning , I landed at Saltash , from the very ancient passage - boat , which in those days conveyed men and women , carts and cattle , across the river Tamar , where now that triumph of engineering , the Albert Bridge ...
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... beautiful daughter of Alef , a Cornish chief . May it not be , that here we have the origin of the story as it is told in Lincolnshire and in Cornwall ? * In making the really Cyclopean hedges which prevail in some parts of Cornwall ...
... beautiful daughter of Alef , a Cornish chief . May it not be , that here we have the origin of the story as it is told in Lincolnshire and in Cornwall ? * In making the really Cyclopean hedges which prevail in some parts of Cornwall ...
الصفحة 64
... beautiful counties . The latter , the piskies of Cornwall , appear to have their wits sharpened by their necessities , and may be likened to the keen and cunning " Arab " boy of the London streets , as seen in contrast , with the clever ...
... beautiful counties . The latter , the piskies of Cornwall , appear to have their wits sharpened by their necessities , and may be likened to the keen and cunning " Arab " boy of the London streets , as seen in contrast , with the clever ...
الصفحة 69
... beautiful babe that human eyes ever gazed on . She was told this child was to be committed to her charge ; she should not want for anything ; but she was to obey certain laws . She was not to teach the child the Lord's Prayer ; she was ...
... beautiful babe that human eyes ever gazed on . She was told this child was to be committed to her charge ; she should not want for anything ; but she was to obey certain laws . She was not to teach the child the Lord's Prayer ; she was ...
الصفحة 71
... beautiful creatures of the invisible world who were his real companions ; but she was discreet , and kept silence . Curious robberies had been from time to time committed in St Ives market , and although the most careful watch had been ...
... beautiful creatures of the invisible world who were his real companions ; but she was discreet , and kept silence . Curious robberies had been from time to time committed in St Ives market , and although the most careful watch had been ...
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1ST SERIES amidst amongst ancient Anne appeared arms beautiful Betty buried cairns called Carn Brea castle Chenalls Cherry child church Chyandour Corineus Cornish Cornwall cottage Crowlas dancing dark Dartmoor devil Duffy evidently eyes fairies father fire friends gentleman giant girl Gogmagog granite ground Gulval heard hill History of Cornwall hole horse inhabitants Islands Jack Jane Jenny Joan labour lady land Land's-End legend Lelant length lived Logan Rock looked lovely maiden mermaid miners moor morning Morva Mount's Bay Nancy neighbours never night old woman Padstow parish passed Pengerswick Penna Penzance piskies rock sand says Scilly seen Selina shew shore side soul spirit spriggans squire St Agnes St Ives St Michael's Mount stone story strange tale tell thee things thought tinkeard told took Towednack tradition Trecrobben Tregeagle Trenoweth village walked wife wild young Zennor
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الصفحة 68 - Their dances were procession : But now, alas ! they all are dead, Or gone beyond the seas ; Or farther for religion fled, Or else they take their ease.
الصفحة i - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
الصفحة 62 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.
الصفحة 239 - While correcting these sheets I am informed of two recent instances of this superstition. One of them was the sacrifice of a calf by a farmer near Portreath, for the purpose of removing a disease which had long followed his horses and his cows. The other was the burning of a living lamb, to save, as the farmer said, ' his flocks from spells which had been cast on 'em.
الصفحة 62 - As we dance the dew doth fall ; Trip it, little urchins all, Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three by three, And about go we, and about go we.2 Jo.
الصفحة 312 - Jefferies, now living in the County of Cornwall, who was fed for six months by a small sort of Airy People, called Fairies; and of the strange and wonderful Cures she performed with Salves and Medicines she received from them, for which she never took one Penny of her Patients.
الصفحة 11 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
الصفحة 308 - The more important doings of the guizards are of a theatrical character. There is one rude and grotesque drama which they are accustomed to perform on each of the four above-mentioned nights, and which, in various fragments or versions, exists in every part of Lowland Scotland. The performers, who are never less than three, but sometimes as many as six, having dressed themselves, proceed in a band from house to house, generally contenting themselves with the kitchen for an arena, whither, in mansions...
الصفحة 237 - There can be no doubt but that a belief prevailed until a very recent period, amongst the small farmers in the districts remote from towns in Cornwall, that a living sacrifice appeased the wrath of God. This sacrifice must be by fire; and I have heard it argued that the Bible gave them warranty for this belief....
الصفحة 230 - Rows of lighted candles, also, when the air is calm, are fixed outside the windows or along the sides of the streets. In St. Just, and other mining parishes, the young miners, mimicking their fathers' employments, bore rows of holes in the rocks, load them with gunpowder, and explode them in rapid succession by trains of the same substance. As the holes are not deep enough to split the rocks, the same little batteries serve for many years.