Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore

by M. A. Courtney

Table of Contents

	[PREFACE.]
	[CORNISH FEASTS AND“FEASTEN” CUSTOMS.]								[1]
	[LEGENDS OF PARISHES,ETC.]								[56]
		[Cornwall Stone.]							[93]
	[FAIRIES.]								[120]
	[SUPERSTITIONS:Miners’, Sailors’,Farmers’.]								[130]
	[CHARMS, Etc.]								[143]
		[For Tetters.]							[149]
		[Toothache.]							[149]
		[For a Strain.]							[150]
		[For Ague.]							[150]
		[For Wildfire (Erysipelas).]							[150]
	[CORNISHGAMES.]								[172]
		[Pray, pretty Miss.]							[174]
		[“Friskee, friskee, I was, and Iwas.”]							[175]
		[“Fool, fool, come toSchool.”]							[176]
		[“Scat” (Cornish for“slap”).]							[177]
		[Hole in the Wall.]							[177]
		[Malaga, Malaga Raisins (a forfeit game).]							[177]
		[She Said, and She Said.]							[178]
		[Drop the Handkerchief.]							[178]
		[How Many Miles to Babylon?]							[179]
		[Rules of Contrary.]							[179]
		[Lady Queen Anne.]							[179]
		[Old Witch.]							[180]
		[Ghost at the Well.]							[182]
		[Mother, Mother, may I go out to Play?]							[182]
		[Here I sit on a cold green Bank.]							[183]
		[Joggle along.]							[184]
		[The Jolly Miller,]							[184]
		[Bobby Bingo.]							[185]
		[Weigh the Butter, weigh the Cheese,]							[185]
		[Libbety, libbety, libbety-lat.]							[186]
		[Ship Sail]							[186]
		[Buck shee, buck,]							[186]
		[Accroshay.]							[187]
		[Buckey-how.]							[187]
		[Cutters and Trucklers (Smugglers).]							[187]
		[Marble Playing]							[187]
		[Cock-haw.]							[188]
		[Winky-eye.]							[188]
		[Uppa, Uppa Holye (pronounced oopa, oopa holly).]							[188]
		[Tom Toddy,]							[189]
	[BALLADS,Etc.]								[190]
		[John Dory.]							[191]
		[An Old BalladOn a Duke of Cornwall’s Daughter]							[192]
		[Ye Sexes give ear.]							[195]
		[A Fox went forth.]							[196]
		[Tweedily, Tweedily, Twee (North Cornwall).]							[197]
		[When shall we be Married?]							[198]
		[Sweet Nightingale.]							[199]
		[The Stout Cripple of Cornwall.]							[200]
		[The Baarley Mow (a harvest song).]							[203]
		[The Long Hundred.]							[205]
		[Elicompane.]							[205]
		[Uncle Jan Dory.]							[205]
	[ADDENDA.]								[207]
	[INDEX.]								[v]

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Title:	Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore
Author:	Margaret Ann Courtney (1834–1920)	[Info]
Language:	English
Original publication date:	1890
Keywords:	Cornwall
	England
	Fasts and feasts
	Folklore
	Legends
	Social life and customs

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