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A Flight of Witches.

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POPULAR ROMANCES
OF THE
WEST OF ENGLAND;
OR,
The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall.

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S.

SECOND SERIES.

LONDON:
JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY.
1865.

[Right of Translation is reserved.]

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Have you any stories like that, gudewife?

Ah, she said; there were plenty of people that could tell those stories once. I used to hear them telling them over the fire at night; but people is so changed with pride now, that they care for nothing.

Campbell.

LONDON: JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
1.	Legends of the Saints,
2.	The Crowza Stones,
3.	The Longstone,
4.	St Sennen and St Just,
5.	Legends of St Leven
The Saint and Johana,
The Saints Path,
The St Leven Stone,
The Two Breams,
10.	St Keyne,
11.	St Denniss Blood,
12.	St Keas Boat,
13.	St Germans Well,
14.	How St Piran reached Cornwall,
15.	St Perran, the Miners Saint,
16.	The Discovery of Tin,
17.	St Neot, the Pigmy,
18.	St Neot and the Fox,
19.	St Neot and the Doe,
20.	St Neot and the Thieves,
21.	St Neot and the Fishes,
22.	Probus and Grace,
23.	St Nectans Kieve and the Lonely Sisters,
24.	Theodore, King of Cornwall,
25.	Well-Worship,
26.	The Well of St Constantine,
27.	The Well of St Ludgvan,
28.	Gulval Well,
29.	The Well of St Keyne,
30.	Maddern or Madron Well,
31.	The Well at Altar-Nun,
32.	St Gundreds Well at Roach Rock,
33.	St Cuthberts or Cuberts Well,
34.	Rickety Children,
35.	Chapell Uny,
36.	Perran Well,
37.	Redruth Well,
38.	Holy Well at Little Conan,
39.	The Preservation of Holy Wells,
40.	Arthur Legends,
41.	The Battle of Vellan-druchar,
42.	Arthur at the Lands End,
43.	Traditions of the Danes in Cornwall,
44.	King Arthur in the Form of a Chough,
45.	The Cornish Chough,
46.	Slaughter Bridge,
47.	Camelford and King Arthur,
48.	Dameliock Castle,
49.	Carlian in Kea,
50.	The Cunning Man,
51.	Notes on Witchcraft,
52.	Ill-wishing,
53.	The Peller,
54.	Bewitched Cattle,
55.	How to Become a Witch,
56.	Cornish Sorcerers,
57.	How Pengerswick Became a Sorcerer,
58.	The Lord of Pengerswick an Enchanter,
59.	The Witch of Fraddam and Pengerswick,
60.	Trewa, the Home of Witches,
61.	Kenidzhek Witch,
62.	The Witches of the Logan Stone,
63.	Madgy Figgys Chair,
64.	Old Madge Figgey and the Pig,
65.	Madam Noy and Old Joan,
66.	The Witch of Treva,
67.	How Mr Lenine Gave Up Courting,
68.	The Witch and the Toad,
69.	The Sailor Wizard,
70.	Traditions of Tinners,
71.	The Tinner of Chyannor,
72.	Who are the Knockers?
73.	Miners Superstitions,
74.	Christmas-Eve in the Mines,
75.	Warnings and Tokens,
76.	The Ghost on Horseback,
77.	The Black Dogs,
78.	Pitmens Omens and Goblins,
79.	The Dead Hand,
80.	Dorcas, the Spirit of Polbreen Mine,
81.	Hingston Downs,
82.	The Pilots Ghost Story,
83.	The Phantom Ship,
84.	Jack Harrys Lights,
85.	The Pirate-Wrecker and the Death Ship,
86.	The Spectre Ship of Porthcurno,
87.	The Lady with the Lantern,
88.	The Drowned Hailing their Names,
89.	The Voice from the Sea,
90.	The Smugglers Token,
91.	The Hooper of Sennen Cove,
92.	How to Eat Pilchards,
93.	Pilchards Crying for More,
94.	The Pressing-Stones,
95.	Whipping the Hake,
96.	The Death Token of the Vingoes,
97.	The Death Fetch of William Rufus,
98.	Sir John Arundell,
99.	Phantoms of the Dying,
100.	The White Hare,
101.	The Hand of a Suicide,
102.	The North Side of a Church,
103.	Popular Superstitions,
104.	Sanding the Step on New Years-Day,
105.	May-Day,
106.	Shrove Tuesday at St Ives,
107.	The Furry, Helstone,
108.	Midsummer Superstitious Customs,
109.	Crying the Neck,
110.	Drinking to the Apple-Trees on Twelfth Night Eve,
111.	Allhallows-Eve at St Ives,
112.	The Twelfth Cake,
113.	Oxen Pray on Christmas Eve,
114.	St GeorgeThe Christmas Plays,
115.	Geese-DancingPlough Monday,
116.	Christmas at St Ives,
117.	Lady Lovells Courtship,
118.	The Game of Hurling,
119.	Sham Mayors
The Mayor of Mylor,
The Mayor of St Germans,
The Mayor of Halgaver Moor,
120.	The Faction Fight at Cury Great Tree,
121.	Towednack Cuckoo Feast,
122.	The Duke of Restormel,
123.	Charming, and Prophetic Power,
124.	Fortune-Telling, Charms, &c.,
125.	The Zennor Charmers,
126.	J. H., the Conjurer of St Colomb,
127.	Cures for Warts,
128.	A Cure for Paralysis,
129.	A Cure for Rheumatism,
130.	Sundry Charms,
131.	Cure for Colic in Towednack,
132.	For a Scald or Burn,

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