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Popular Romances of the West of England, Second Series

by Robert Hunt

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Epigraph — Legends of the Saints
  3. 3The Crowza Stones
  4. 4The Longstone. The Giant’s Hat and Staff
  5. 5St Sennen and St Just
  6. 6I — The Saint and Johana
  7. 7II — The Saint’s Path
  8. 8III — The St Leven Stone
  9. 9IV — The Two Breams
  10. 10Saint Keyne
  11. 11St Dennis’s Blood
  12. 12St Kea’s Boat
  13. 13St German’s Well
  14. 14How St Piran Reached Cornwall
  15. 15St Perran, the Miners’ Saint
  16. 16The Discovery of Tin
  17. 17St Neot, the Pigmy
  18. 18St Neot and the Fox
  19. 19St Neot and the Doe
  20. 20St Neot and the Thieves
  21. 21St Neot and the Fishes
  22. 22Probus and Grace
  23. 23St Nectan’s Kieve and the Lonely Sisters
  24. 24Theodore, King of Cornwall
  25. 25Holy Wells — Superstitions of the Wells
  26. 26The Well of St Constantine
  27. 27The Well of St Ludgvan
  28. 28Gulval Well
  29. 29The Well of St Keyne
  30. 30Maddern or Madron Well
  31. 31The Well at Altar-Nun. Cure of Insanity
  32. 32St Gundred’s Well at Roach Rock
  33. 33St Cuthbert’s or Cubert’s Well
  34. 34Rickety Children
  35. 35Chapell Uny
  36. 36Perran Well
  37. 37Redruth Well
  38. 38Holy Well at Little Conan
  39. 39The Preservation of Holy Wells
  40. 40King Arthur
  41. 41Romances of Arthur
  42. 42The Battle of Vellan-Druchar
  43. 43Arthur at the Land’s-End
  44. 44Traditions of the Danes in Cornwall
  45. 45King Arthur in the Form of a Chough
  46. 46The Cornish Chough
  47. 47Slaughter Bridge
  48. 48Camelford and King Arthur
  49. 49Dameliock Castle
  50. 50Carlian in Kea
  51. 51Sorcery and Witchcraft — Romances of Witches, etc. — The “Cunning Man”
  52. 52Notes on Witchcraft
  53. 53Ill-Wishing
  54. 54The “Peller”
  55. 55Bewitched Cattle
  56. 56How to Become a Witch
  57. 57Cornish Sorcerers
  58. 58How Pengerswick Became a Sorcerer
  59. 59The Lord of Pengerswick an Enchanter
  60. 60The Witch of Fraddam and the Enchanter of Pengerswick
  61. 61Trewa, or Trewe; the Home of Witches
  62. 62Kenidzhek Witch
  63. 63The Witches of the Logan Stone
  64. 64Madgy Figgy’s Chair
  65. 65Old Madge Figgey and the Pig
  66. 66Madam Noy and Old Joan
  67. 67The Witch of Treva
  68. 68How Mr Lenine Gave Up Courting
  69. 69The Witch and the Toad
  70. 70The Sailor Wizard
  71. 71The Miners
  72. 72Romances of the Miners
  73. 73The Tinner of Chyannor
  74. 74“Who Are the Knockers?”
  75. 75Miners’ Superstitions
  76. 76Christmas-Eve in the Mines
  77. 77Warnings and “Tokens”
  78. 78The Ghost on Horseback
  79. 79The Black Dogs
  80. 80Pitmen’s Omens and Goblins
  81. 81The Dead Hand
  82. 82Dorcas, the Spirit of Polbreen Mine
  83. 83Hingston Downs
  84. 84Fishermen and Sailors
  85. 85Romances of Fishermen and Sailors
  86. 86The Phantom Ship
  87. 87Jack Harry’s Lights
  88. 88The Pirate-Wrecker and the Death Ship
  89. 89The Spectre Ship of Porthcurno
  90. 90The Lady With the Lantern
  91. 91The Drowned “Hailing Their Names”
  92. 92The Voice From the Sea
  93. 93The Smuggler’s Token
  94. 94The Hooper, or the Hooter, of Sennen Cove
  95. 95How to Eat Pilchards
  96. 96Pilchards Crying for More
  97. 97The Pressing-Stones
  98. 98Whipping the Hake
  99. 99Death Superstitions
  100. 100Death Tokens and Superstitions
  101. 101The Death Fetch of William Rufus
  102. 102Sir John Arundell
  103. 103Phantoms of the Dying
  104. 104The White Hare
  105. 105The Hand of a Suicide
  106. 106The North Side of a Church
  107. 107Popular Superstitions
  108. 108Old Usages
  109. 109Customs of Ancient Days
  110. 110May-Day
  111. 111Shrove Tuesday at St Ives
  112. 112“The Furry” — Helstone
  113. 113Midsummer Superstitious Customs
  114. 114Crying the Neck
  115. 115Drinking to the Apple-Trees on Twelfth Night Eve
  116. 116Allhallows-Eve at St Ives
  117. 117The Twelfth Cake
  118. 118Oxen Pray on Christmas Eve
  119. 119“St George” — The Christmas Plays
  120. 120Geese-Dancing — Plough Monday
  121. 121Christmas at St Ives
  122. 122Lady Lovell’s Courtship
  123. 123The Game of Hurling
  124. 124Sham Mayors
  125. 125The Faction Fight at Cury Great Tree
  126. 126Towednack Cuckoo Feast
  127. 127The Duke of Restormel
  128. 128Popular Superstitions
  129. 129Charming, Prophetic Power, etc.
  130. 130Fortune-Telling, Charms, etc.
  131. 131The Zennor Charmers
  132. 132J — H — , the Conjurer of St Colomb
  133. 133Cures for Warts
  134. 134A Cure for Paralysis
  135. 135A Cure for Rheumatism
  136. 136Sundry Charms
  137. 137Cure for Colic in Towednack — For a Scald or Burn
  138. 138Charms for Inflammatory Diseases
  139. 139Charms for the Prick of a Thorn
  140. 140Charms for Stanching of Blood
  141. 141Charm for a Tetter
  142. 142Charm for the Sting of a Nettle
  143. 143Charm for Toothache
  144. 144Charm for Serpents
  145. 145The Cure of Boils
  146. 146Rickets, or a Crick in the Back
  147. 147The Club-Moss, (Lycopodium Inundatum.)
  148. 148Moon Superstitions
  149. 149Cures for Whooping-Cough
  150. 150Cure of Toothache
  151. 151The Convalescent’s Walk
  152. 152Adders, and the Milpreve
  153. 153Snakes Avoid the Ash-Tree
  154. 154To Charm a Snake
  155. 155The Ash-Tree
  156. 156Rhyme on the Even Ash — A Test of Innocency
  157. 157The Bonfire Test
  158. 158Lights Seen by the Converted
  159. 159The Migratory Birds
  160. 160Shooting Stars
  161. 161The Sun Never Shines on the Perjured
  162. 162Characteristics
  163. 163The Mutton Feast
  164. 164The Floating Grindstone
  165. 165Celts — Flint Arrow-Heads, etc.
  166. 166Horns on the Church Tower
  167. 167Tea-Stalks and Smut
  168. 168An Old Cornish Rhyme
  169. 169To Choose a Wife
  170. 170The Robin and the Wren
  171. 171To Secure Good Luck for a Child
  172. 172Innocency — Rain at Bridal or Burial
  173. 173Crowing Hens, etc.
  174. 174The New Moon
  175. 175Looking-Glasses — The Magpie
  176. 176The Month of May Unlucky
  177. 177On the Births of Children
  178. 178On Washing Linen
  179. 179Itching Ears
  180. 180The Spark on the Candle
  181. 181The Blue Vein
  182. 182The Croaking of the Raven
  183. 183Whistling
  184. 184Meeting on the Stairs
  185. 185Treading on Graves
  186. 186A Loose Garter — To Cure the Hiccough
  187. 187The Sleeping Foot — The Horse-Shoe
  188. 188The Black Cat’s Tail
  189. 189Unlucky Things
  190. 190The Limp Corpse
  191. 191“By Hook or by Crook”
  192. 192Weather Signs
  193. 193Weather at Liskeard
  194. 194The First Butterfly
  195. 195Peculiar Words and Phrases
  196. 196Miscellaneous Stories
  197. 197Various Romances & Superstitions
  198. 198The Tower of Minster Church
  199. 199Temple Moors
  200. 200The Legend of Tamara
  201. 201The Church and the Barn
  202. 202The Penryn Tragedy
  203. 203Goldsithney Fair and the Glove
  204. 204The Harlyn Pie
  205. 205Packs of Wool the Foundation of the Bridge of Wadebridge
  206. 206The Last Wolf in England
  207. 207Churches Built in Performance of Vows
  208. 208Bolait, the Field of Blood
  209. 209Woeful Moor, and Bodrigan’s Leap
  210. 210Pengerswick Castle
  211. 211The Clerks of Cornwall
  212. 212A Fairy Caught
  213. 213The Lizard People
  214. 214Prussia Cove and Smugglers’ Holes
  215. 215Cornish Teeny-Tiny
  216. 216The Spaniard at Penryn
  217. 217Boyer, Mayor of Bodmin
  218. 218Thomasine Bonaventure
  219. 219The Last of the Killigrews
  220. 220Saint Gerennius
  221. 221Cornish Dialogue
  222. 222Appendix
  223. 223(B.) — The Discoverer of Tin
  224. 224(C.) — St Neot
  225. 225(D.) — The Sisters of Glen-Neot
  226. 226(E.) — Millington of Pengerswick
  227. 227(F.) — Saracen

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