Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore

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
CORNISH GAMES.		172
	Pray, pretty Miss.	174
	“Friskee, friskee, I was, and I was.”	175
	“Fool, fool, come to School.”	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 Ballad On 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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Related Library of Congress catalog page:	28031161
Related WorldCat catalog page:	702566
Related Open Library catalog page (for source):	OL6723199M
Related Open Library catalog page (for work):	OL6665109W

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F.L.S.	The Folklore Society
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M.B.	Bachelor of Medicine
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