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Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore
M. A. Courtney
Cornish miners had their superstitions, and so did the sailors and farmers; Margaret Courtney collected them all. Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore records parish legends, fairy lore, and working charms: for tetters, for toothache, for a strain. Feast customs and folk memory from Britain's far southwest corner. Cross into a county where old beliefs kept working hours.
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69 chapters
- 1PREFACE.
- 2CORNISH FEASTS AND “FEASTEN” CUSTOMS.
- 3‘The Morning-Song.
- 4LEGENDS OF PARISHES, ETC.
- 5Cornwall Stone.
- 6FAIRIES.
- 7SUPERSTITIONS: Miners’, Sailors’, Farmers’.
- 8CHARMS, Etc.
- 9For Tetters.
- 10Toothache.
- 11For a Strain.
- 12For Ague.
- 13For Wildfire (Erysipelas).
- 14CORNISH GAMES.
- 15Pray, pretty Miss.
- 16“Friskee, friskee, I was, and I was.”
- 17“Fool, fool, come to School.”
- 18“Scat” (Cornish for “slap”).
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