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Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Vol. 1, by William Bottrell, [1870], at sacred-texts.com

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TRADITIONS

AND

HEARTHSIDE STORIES

OF

WEST CORNWALL

BY

WILLIAM BOTTRELL

(AN OLD CELT)

"Meantime the village rouses up the fire;
 While well attested, and as well believ’d,
 Heard solemn, goes the goblin story round;
 Till superstitious horror creeps o’er all."
                              Thompson

PENZANCE:

1870

Printed for the Author, by W. Cornish, The Library, Green Market

Scanned, proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare at sacred-texts.com, November 2008. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.

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