Ancient Bridal Customs, [237]
——— Coins found at Castle Maen, [127]
——— Mariners' Stories, [149]
A night's ride to Scilly, [233]
Ballowal, the knockers of (fairy tale), [185]
Baranhuel, a Queen's visit to, [67]
———— fairies' cow, [73]
———— shell room, [72], [274]
Beatrice I'an, or Ivan, [104]
————— her death, [118]
Betty Stoggs's baby (fairy tale), [205]
Bevan, the Rev. James, [197]
Bewitching a dairy, [65]
Bob 'o the Carn (fairy tale), [173]
Boleit, ancient monuments of, [29]
Books popular in the West Country a century ago, [197]
Boscawen-un circle, [34]
Boskenna, [36]
Boslow, the Piskey of, [158]
Brea, or Bray, [42], [200], [278]
Brea-Vean, the Changeling of (fairy tale), [200]
Breage, St., visits her brother, St. Levan, [145]
Bridal customs, ancient, still in vogue, [237]
Buccaneering, [45]
Bucka, offerings to, [187], [246]
Buryan fair, [39]
——— Sanctuary, men of, [269]
——— wise-woman or fortune-teller of, [47]
Calling of the cleeves, [216]
Cardews of Boskenna, the last of, [38]
Castle Treen, traditions of [130], [138]
—— Maen, or Men, [127]
Changeling of Brea-Vean, [200]
———— how to get rid of one, [202]
Chapel Uny Well, [199]
Charms, [243]
Chyannor, Tom of, the tin-streamer, [72]
Chynance, [116]
Clarice de Boleit, inscription on her tomb, [29]
Conjurors, pellars, or wise-men, [20], [76], [276]
Crick-stone, the, or Men-an-tol, [242]
Cursing Psalm, the, [229], [231]
Danes, traditions of their incursions, [127], [141], [274]
Daunce-Mayn, [33]
Death-ship, the, [248]
Demon, a, spinning, [5]
Den-an-Dynas, the giant and his wife, [137]
Devil's money, [227]
Divination, [131], [217], [245], [283]
Doctresses of the West Country, [49]
Duffy and a Devil, an old guise-dance, [1]
Enchanter, the, of Pengersec, [263]
———— of Maen and a thief, [265], [267]
Escols, a strong man of, [31]
—— weavers of, [196]
Faction fight in Buryan Church-town, [215]
Fairy dwelling on Selena Moor, [94]
—— fair, [161]
—— master, the, [173]
—— tales, [73], [94], [102], [154], [168], [173], [185], [200]
Fairies, how they may be driven away, [75]
——— old folks' notions respecting, [101], [245]
Flowers, planting on graves, an old West Country custom, [114]
Fortune-tellers, [49], [276]
Garrack-zans, [77], [150]
Ghost stories, [122], [152], [217], [230]
—— laying, [124]
Ghostly ship's-bell, a, [277]
Giants of Castle Treen, [131], [137]
Goblins of the Mines, [187]
Guise-dances, how performed, [2]
Gulthise (harvest feast), [95]
Gwinear, the slighted damsel of, [229]
Haunted houses, [122], [212]
Hella-point, mermaids of, [151]
Hell-hounds, [66]
Heimskringla, the, of Snorri Surlusson, account in of Northmen marauding Cornwall, &c., [274]
Hilla-ridden, [236]
Holed stones, [31], [242], [280]
Hooper of Cowloe, the, [247]
Hostess, the, of Market-jew, [82]
Hurling, [24]
Husbandry, old, [195]
I'ans, their house in Treen, [103]
—— ghosts of, [122]
—— a Breton descendant of, [125]
Ill-wishing, [63], [65], [285], [286]
Ivy-leaves and rushes, divination by, [217], [283]
Johanna, the foolish, her garden, [146]
——— rebukes St. Levan for fishing on a Sunday, [148]
Just, St., feast of, [154], [170]
Kaerkeis bowjey, [127]
Key, the, of Castle Treen, [130]
Knackers of Ballowal (fairy tale), [185]
Levan, St., legends of, [145]
———— stone, [147]
———— his path, [146], [272]
———— witches, [139]
Long stones, or Menheeres of Boleit, [30]
————— places named from numerous, [31]
Lovell, Madam, her troubles, [21]
—— or Levelis, family of, [271]
Loyal hearts of Buryan, [69]
Madron well and chapel, [239]
Marriage usages, ancient, [237], [239]
Mayor of Market-jew, a, [83]
Merchants of Treen, the, [81]
Merlin's prophesies, [130], [147]
Mermaid of Zennor, the, [288]
Midsummer bonfires, [287]
Miners' stories, [187], [191]
Miracle-plays, performed at Sancreed, [269]
Morvah man, a, shopping, [207]
Nelly Wearne, the story of, [38]
Nicknames, [198]
Night's ride, a, to Scilly, [233]
Noy, Mr. William, in a fairy dwelling, [97]
Noy, Madam, and the witch, [63]
—— family of, [274]
Olaf, the first Christian king of Norway, his conversion at Scilly, [275]
Parchapel well, [148]
Parcurnow, traditions of, [140]
Pargwartha, legend of, [149]
Parish clerks sixty years ago, [169]
Pellars, or wise-men, [76], [191]
Penance, doing in Buryan Church, [55]
Penberth, a cottage dwelling at, [111]
Pendar, Madam, receiving a Queen, [68]
——— family of, [72], [95], [119], [223]
Pendeen of old, [166], [279]
Pengersec, legends of, [251]
———— the magician, [264]
Penrose, the smugglers of, [212]
——— family, [223]
Phantom lover, a, takes off his affianced, [152]
Piskey, how he left Boslow, [168]
——— led, [160]
——— threshing, [159]
Plan-an-guarre, St. Just, [268]
Polkinghorne, Parson, an exorcist, [125]
Queen's, a, visit to Baranhuel, [67]
Robbers, the, and merchants of Treen, [87]
Roskestal, Garrack-zans in, [148], [151]
Rosmoddrass, monuments of, [27]
Sanctuary men of Buryan, [260]
"Sancras," miracle-play at, [269]
Scilly, a night's ride to, [233]
—— visited by King Olaf, [275]
Selena Moor, a fairy dwelling on, [94]
Shovel, Admiral Sir Cloudesly, his wreck at Scilly, [231]
——— his grave, [233]
Slighted damsel, the, of Gwinear, [229]
Small-people, see [fairies].
Smugglers, [57], [106]
———— the, of Penrose, [212]
Spinning, [5], [25], [105]
Sweethearts' Cove, the, [149]
Sun, the, never shines on a person that has sworn way a life, [249]
Tarraway, the spinning demon, [16]
Tinners' stories, [185]
Tolmen of Constantine, the, [280]
Tom Trenoweth's bewitched sow, [61]
—— of Chyannor, the tin-streamer, [77]
———— gets three pieces of wisdom in lieu of wages, [80]
———— his welcome home, [89]
Tredrill, the changeling, [201]
Treen, a market town, in old times, [78]
——— the I'an's house of, [103]
——— Dynas, [127]
Tregagle bound to Gwenvor, [224]
——— the roaring of, [226]
Uncle Will Ben's fiddle and sayings, [170]
Vellan Dreath, the burning of, [279]
Vow, the, of Pendeen, [28], [167]
—— spirit of the, [167]
Weddings, old fashioned customs at, [237], [239]
Wells, holy, [128], [148], [239], [201]
Wetherel, Capt., his grave and ghostly ship's-bell, [277]
White hare, an injured woman's spirit takes the form of a, [253]
Wise-woman, the, of Buryan Church-town, [47]
Witches, [12], [59], [63], [65], [75], [139], [255], [265]
Zennor man's will, a, [210]
——— mermaid of, [288]
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