Download or read book Luda a Lay of the Druids Hymns Tales Essays and Legends written by John HARRIS (a Cornish Miner.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wizard of West Penwith written by William Bentinck Forfar and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1871 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In writing my Cornish Tales I have always endeavoured to pourtray the Cornish character in all its native wit and humour, for which the genuine west-country miners are so proverbial. And I have generally taken for the foundation of my Stories incidents which have really happened in the localities wherein the actions of my little dramas have been laid. The scene of my present story is laid in the neighbourhood of the Land's-End, and most of the characters were well-known there in days gone by;-the names only being fictitious. The fall of the horse over the cliff is still in the remembrance of some old people in the neighbourhood; and the circumstance is related by the Guides who shew the beauties of the Land's-End scenery to strangers. The marks of the horse's hoofs in the grass at the edge of the cliff are preserved to this day. The Wizard (or Conjuror as he was called) was a notorious character at St. Just, some fifty years ago; and the horrid murder related in these pages; and the mistaken identity of the guilty parties are also veritable facts.

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Download or read book The Wizard of West Penwith A Tale of the Land s End written by William Bentinck Forfar and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Wizard of West Penwith: A Tale of the Land's-End' is a fictional novel on the residents of West Penwith on the coast of Cornwall. Alexander Morley had been wrongly jailed for murder but later acquitted. The event leaves him greatly shaken however and he moves to India where he dies soon thereafter, but not before making his sons Fred and Morley swear to clear his name. Meanwhile Mr. Freeman is the well-known story teller who is referred to as the conjuror because of his mysterious powers. When a ship is wrecked on the coast near the village, Fredrick goes to see 'the conjuror' to enquire the fate of his brother who had been expected to arrive at any day...

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Download or read book Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England written by Ken MacMillan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England has been updated to include more texts about witchcraft, murder, and sexual deviance and discussions about the historical climate within which crimes occurred; voice and print culture; and types of crime and criminals. This volume contains modernized and annotated chapbooks related to crimes such as murder, theft, infanticide, rape, and witchcraft with accompanying illustrations that depict the acts and punishments of criminals in Tudor and Stuart England. In this edition, special attention has been paid to demonstrating significant overlaps and encouraging students to question authors’ reasonings behind including multiple crimes in a single work. Alongside this, further useful prompts have been included to stimulate discussion about why parables were used to open chapbooks, the historical context underpinning certain criminal acts, the value of these sources to scholars, and how certain texts compare and contrast with others. With five new chapters and an updated introduction and bibliography, the second edition of Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England is an essential resource for all students of crime and punishment in early modern England.

Download or read book Paragon written by Karolina Wloch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan is dismissed from the militia, without warning or reason. At the same time he is given a message to take home: a village has been burned, and the woods are no longer safe. Yet as he and his friends fear for their home, others watch with interest. Ruins have been discovered, people are disappearing, and a man claims to be the reincarnation of the great hero Kato. People wait to see if he will be captured, killed - or become famous. But as Dan flees the danger, he starts to learn why Kato's legacy is so dividing, why it is linked to the fall of an entire race - and why, now of all times, he is having dreams of a life he had never lived...

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Download or read book THE CHINESE FAIRY BOOK 73 Chinese children s stories written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fairy tales and legends of olden China are as ancient as the land itself. They have an oriental glow which can only be found in the orient. They glitter like precious stones, shine like gold and shimmer like multicoloured silks fluttering in the breeze. They contain oriental wealth of fantastic and supernatural action, not too dissimilar to the tales in the “Thousand and One Nights”. The 73 stories herein embrace “Nursery Fairy Tales,” “Legends of the Gods,” “Tales of Saints and Magicians,” “Nature and Animal Tales,” “Ghost Stories,” “Historic Fairy Tales,” and “Literary Fairy Tales”. Like the “Arabian Nights,” they will fascinate the young reader and amply repay the attention of the older generations as well. Some are exquisitely poetic, such as “The Flower-Elves,” “The Lady of the Moon” or “The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden”; others like “How Three Heroes Came By Their Deaths Because Of Two Peaches,” carry us back dramatically and powerfully to the Chinese age of Chivalry. The summits of fantasy are scaled in the quasi-religious dramas of “The Ape Sun Wu Kung” and “Notscha,” or the weird sorceries unfolded in “The Kindly Magician.” Delightful ghost stories, with happy endings, such as “A Night on the Battlefield” and “The Ghost Who Was Foiled,” are paralleled with such idyllic love-tales as that of “Rose of Evening,” or such Lilliputian fancies as “The King of the Ants” and “The Little Hunting Dog.” It is quite safe to say that these Chinese fairy tales will give equal pleasure to the old as well as the young. They have been retold simply, with no changes in style or expression beyond such details of presentation which differences between oriental and occidental viewpoints at times compel. It is the writer’s hope that others may take as much pleasure in reading them as he did in their translation. 33% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.

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Download or read book Faerie Swap written by Anthea Sharp and published by Fiddlehead Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen away by the faeries... Two parallel tales of a changeling's adventures in the real world and a boy's experience in the treacherous and magical Dark Court of the Faerie Realm. Making unexpected allies along the way, will either of them be rescued, or will Korrigan and The Bug be forced to dwell forever in a world not their own? Includes the linked Feyland novellas How to Babysit a Changeling and The Bug in the Dark Court *Plus a bonus story!* REAL CHALLENGE: A Spark Jaxley Adventure Sometimes, the true test isn’t what you think… Top-rated gamer Spark Jaxley has made it to the World Championships, ready to give the competition her all. The stakes are high, the gaming is fierce, and her entire future is riding on the outcome. In the end, will she make the right choice? KEYWORDS: Changeling, folklore, YA action adventure, Holly Black, Unseelie Court, faerie, fae, stolen away child, Feyguard, Melissa Marr, Spiderwick, Portal Fantasy, Narnia, Isekai, Shirtaloon

Download or read book The Lizard Hunters Tale written by James E. Morgan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers Chen and Tesh and several of their friends, suddenly find their simple village life left behind as they fall unwittingly into a centuries old prophecy that sends them on an amazing journey across their world. They encounter extraordinary creatures and magic, making new friends along the way.