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100 1 _aBottrell, William,
_d1816-1881
245 1 0 _aStories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-05
508 _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections)
520 _a"Stories and Folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series" by William Bottrell is a collection of folk tales, legends, and local traditions compiled in the late 19th century. The anthology presents the beliefs, supernatural occurrences, and rural customs of Cornwall, focusing on storytelling as it was preserved among local people. Readers can expect accounts of ghosts, witches, demonic encounters, village feasts, old sports, and superstitions, reflecting the unique character and mythology of the Cornish countryside. The opening of the book sets the scene with a preface noting the author’s failing health and situates the work within the growing interest in folk-lore studies of the era. It then introduces a table of contents showing a rich mix of legends, ghost stories, supernatural events, and local customs. The initial stories describe the figure of Mr. Wood, a Rector skilled in exorcism, astrology, and community leadership, who helps his parishioners face supernatural threats. Notable tales include Jackey Trevail’s wrestling match with a devil and the exorcism of ghosts haunting an old Cornish mansion. The early chapters are lively and full of local color, ghostly encounters, Cornish dialect, and insight into both the magical and everyday realities of rural Cornwall. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPenzance: Printed for the Author by F. Rodda, 1880
653 _aLegends -- England -- Cornwall (County)
653 _aFolklore -- England -- Cornwall (County)
653 _aFairy tales -- England -- Cornwall (County)
653 _aCornish language -- Dictionaries -- English
700 1 _aBlight, Joseph
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/cu31924029890559/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75799
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