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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... seen to be an offshoot from the common stock . Yet they have several local peculiarities , and possess names which are especially their own . A few of the more popular legends of the Cornish saints are preserved , for the purpose of ...
... seen to be an offshoot from the common stock . Yet they have several local peculiarities , and possess names which are especially their own . A few of the more popular legends of the Cornish saints are preserved , for the purpose of ...
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... seen , a few miles from Dingwall , which was thrown equally far , and which bears the impress of the giant's finger and thumb . Also , they tell us of the cailliach - more , or great woman , who , " from a pannier filled with earth and ...
... seen , a few miles from Dingwall , which was thrown equally far , and which bears the impress of the giant's finger and thumb . Also , they tell us of the cailliach - more , or great woman , who , " from a pannier filled with earth and ...
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... seen hundreds of miners ' cottages , and scores of tall chimneys , telling of the mechanical appliances which are brought to bear upon the extraction of tin and copper from the earth . Beyond this thickly - peopled region the eye wan ...
... seen hundreds of miners ' cottages , and scores of tall chimneys , telling of the mechanical appliances which are brought to bear upon the extraction of tin and copper from the earth . Beyond this thickly - peopled region the eye wan ...
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... seen , and her fishing - boats dotting the sea give evidence of another industry of vast importance to the town and neighbourhood . Westward of St Ives , hills more brown and rugged than any which have yet been viewed , stretch away to ...
... seen , and her fishing - boats dotting the sea give evidence of another industry of vast importance to the town and neighbourhood . Westward of St Ives , hills more brown and rugged than any which have yet been viewed , stretch away to ...
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... seen at a considerable dis- tance , as he approached the guarded spot . It is as clear as tradition can make it , that Trecrobben was the centre of a region full of giants . On Lescudjack Hill , close to Penzance , there is " The ...
... seen at a considerable dis- tance , as he approached the guarded spot . It is as clear as tradition can make it , that Trecrobben was the centre of a region full of giants . On Lescudjack Hill , close to Penzance , there is " The ...
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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.