Project Gutenberg 2025-04-05 Public domain in the USA. 450 Bottrell, William 1816 1881 Blight, Joseph Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series $aPenzance :$bPrinted for the Author by F. Rodda, $c1880. Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections) "Stories and Folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series" by William Bottrell is a collection of folk tales, legends, and local traditions compiled in the late 19th century. The anthology presents the beliefs, supernatural occurrences, and rural customs of Cornwall, focusing on storytelling as it was preserved among local people. Readers can expect accounts of ghosts, witches, demonic encounters, village feasts, old sports, and superstitions, reflecting the unique character and mythology of the Cornish countryside. The opening of the book sets the scene with a preface noting the author’s failing health and situates the work within the growing interest in folk-lore studies of the era. It then introduces a table of contents showing a rich mix of legends, ghost stories, supernatural events, and local customs. The initial stories describe the figure of Mr. Wood, a Rector skilled in exorcism, astrology, and community leadership, who helps his parishioners face supernatural threats. Notable tales include Jackey Trevail’s wrestling match with a devil and the exorcism of ghosts haunting an old Cornish mansion. The early chapters are lively and full of local color, ghostly encounters, Cornish dialect, and insight into both the magical and everyday realities of rural Cornwall. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/cu31924029890559/page/n3/mode/2up 20200505075513bottrell 1880 GB Reading ease score: 70.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Legends -- England -- Cornwall (County) Folklore -- England -- Cornwall (County) Fairy tales -- England -- Cornwall (County) Cornish language -- Dictionaries -- English GR Text Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore 702346 2025-09-30T05:08:52.964048 text/html 664180 2025-04-05T20:09:19 text/html 1368933 2025-09-30T05:09:10.434000 application/epub+zip 1366798 2025-09-30T05:08:58.124026 application/epub+zip 369809 2025-09-30T05:08:55.229002 application/epub+zip 2815387 2025-09-30T05:09:18.205016 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2728272 2025-09-30T05:09:07.518977 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 550833 2025-09-30T05:08:50.982048 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 530744 2025-04-05T20:09:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16702 2025-09-30T05:09:18.679911 application/rdf+xml 15797 2025-09-30T05:08:55.408036 image/jpeg 2361 2025-09-30T05:08:55.319016 image/jpeg 1245254 2025-09-30T05:08:53.070066 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia