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Devonshire Characters and Strange Events

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By S. Baring-Gould
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A collection of illustrated sketches and investigations of provincial personalities, curious incidents, and folklore from Devonshire. The author assembles biographical sketches, criminal and legal episodes, reports of hauntings, witchcraft, impostures and local oddities, supported by archival sources, eyewitness accounts and portraits. Entries range from comic characters and eccentric villagers to pirates, inventors and religious visionaries, interspersed with anecdotes, illustrations and an index, presenting a varied portrait of regional life and popular belief.

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Title: Devonshire Characters and Strange Events

Author: S. Baring-Gould

Release date: March 16, 2015 [eBook #48507]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEVONSHIRE CHARACTERS AND STRANGE EVENTS ***

DEVONSHIRE CHARACTERS
AND STRANGE EVENTS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

YORKSHIRE ODDITIES
TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS
CURIOUS MYTHS
LIVES OF THE SAINTS

ETC. ETC.

G. Clint, A.R.A., pinxt.

Thos. Lupton. sculpt.

MARIA FOOTE, AFTERWARDS COUNTESS OF HARRINGTON,
AS MARIA DARLINGTON IN THE FARCE
OF “A ROWLAND FOR AN OLIVER” (1824)

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DEVONSHIRE
CHARACTERS
AND STRANGE EVENTS

BY S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.
WITH 55 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
REPRODUCED FROM OLD PRINTS, ETC.

O Jupiter!
Hanccine vitam? hoscine mores? hanc dementiam?
TERENCE, Adelphi (Act IV).

LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMVIII

PLYMOUTH: WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LIMITED, PRINTERS