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Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore

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Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore

Margaret Ann Courtney

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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

  1. 1PREFACE.
  2. 2CORNISH FEASTS AND “FEASTEN” CUSTOMS.
  3. 3‘The Morning-Song.
  4. 4LEGENDS OF PARISHES, ETC.
  5. 5Cornwall Stone.
  6. 6FAIRIES.
  7. 7SUPERSTITIONS: Miners’, Sailors’, Farmers’.
  8. 8CHARMS, Etc.
  9. 9For Tetters.
  10. 10Toothache.
  11. 11For a Strain.
  12. 12For Ague.
  13. 13For Wildfire (Erysipelas).
  14. 14CORNISH GAMES.
  15. 15Pray, pretty Miss.
  16. 16“Friskee, friskee, I was, and I was.”
  17. 17“Fool, fool, come to School.”
  18. 18“Scat” (Cornish for “slap”).

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