Download or read book Humorous Cornish legends in verse written by Henry John Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TWO CORNISH LEGENDS THE OLD MAN OF CURY and THE HOOTING CARN written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 262 In this 262nd issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the stories of ?THE OLD MAN OF CURY and THE HOOTING CARN.? In the story of THE OLD MAN OF CURY,they tell a story down in Meneage, at the southernmost corner of England, at a place called the Lizard peninsula. The story is of an old man from the little village of Cury, near Mullion, who once rescued a mermaid who was stranded by the receding tide, and could not get back to her husband and family, who were awaiting her in a cave by Kynance Cove. What happened to the mermaid you ask and what of the old man? In touching the mermaid, was the old man forever doomed to live his life in the realm of King Poseidon? Well, you?ll have to download and read the story to find out for yourself! In THE HOOTING CARN we are told one of the grimmest yet most fascinating tracts of moorland in the West is that wild, boulder-strewn district behind St. Just in Penwith, near a place called Land's End. Here, amid a scene of savage beauty, wind-swept by the great gales from the Atlantic, is a stretch of treeless moor, the richest in all Cornwall in remains of prehistoric man. There is something eerie about this furthest west corner of England and around it cluster legends galore. One of the queerest is that of the Hooting Carn, a bleak hill between St. Just and Morvah. Cam Kenidzhek is its real name, but they are taking now to spelling it as it is pronounced?Carn Kenidjack. From it weird moaning sounds arise at night, and the strangely named Gump, a level track just below the summit, was, they say, the scene of a grim midnight struggle in the very old days. It happened that one moonless night two miners, walking back to their homes from Morvah, passed by the base of the Hooting Carn. And this is where our story really starts?? What happened to the miners you ask? Did they make it home another queries? And, what of their families? Well you?ll just have to download and read this story to find out! BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN?S STORIES FOR ONLY $1 33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ
Download or read book Between the Realms written by Cheryl Straffon and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fabulous exploration of the Cornish Celtic Otherworld, Cheryl Straffon shares stories, myths, and legends of supernatural beings such as fairies, piskies, mermaids, witches, giants, and other strange and wonderful creatures. These expertly told stories will help you transform your perspective on the traditional integration of spiritual energies so that even the mundane world will become more magical.
Download or read book The Piskey Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall written by Enys Tregarthen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North Cornwall" by Enys Tregarthen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Cornish Legend and Folklore written by Michael Everson and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornish folktales about giants, mermaids, and so on are retold in this colourful graphic novel format.
Download or read book Cornwall Misfits Curiosities and Legends A Collection of Short Stories written by Tracey Dockree and published by Cornwall Writers Short Stories. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornwall Misfits, Curiosities and Legends is a collection of Cornish short stories with a rich variety of genres, time periods and moods but all tied to Cornwall. Action shifts between land and sea; locals and newcomers; from times past to times beyond time. This Cornish anthology is full of surprises and entertainment.
Download or read book Cornish legends written by Robert Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Cornwall Fairies and Legends written by Enys Tregarthen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "North Cornwall Fairies and Legends" by Enys Tregarthen. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book NORTH CORNWALL FAIRIES AND LEGENDS 13 Legends from England s West Country written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numberless stories of the little Ancient People of England’s West Country of Cornwall and Devon used to be told. In olden times cottagers often repeated to each other on winter evenings as they sat round the peat fires, and some of these Enys Tregarthen has retold 13 of the most enduring in this illustrated volume. The Legends in this volume are: The Adventures of a Piskey in Search of his Laugh The Legend of the Padstow Doombar The Little Cake-bird The Impounded Crows The Piskeys’ Revenge The Old Sky Woman Reefy, Reefy Rum The Little Horses and Horsemen of Padstow How Jan Brewer was Piskey-laden The Small People’s Fair The Piskeys who did Aunt Betsy’s Work The Piskeys who Carried their Beds The Fairy Whirlwind Piskeys, or Pixies, danced in their rings on many a cliff and wild moor on moonlit nights in North and East Cornwall. Fairy horsemen, known locally as night-riders, used to steal horses from farmers’ stables and ride them over the moors untill daybreak, when they left them exhausted, and to find their own way back to their stalls. The legends about the Little People are very old, and some assert to-day that the tales about the Piskeys are tales of a Pigmy race who inhabited Cornwall in the Neolithic Period, and that they are answerable for most of the legends of our Cornish fairies. If this be so, the older stories are legends of the little Stone Men. The West Country legends of the Little People are numerous. Some of them are very fragmentary; but they are none they are hugely entertaining and give an insight into the world of the little Ancient People, but they also show how strongly the Cornish peasantry once believed in them, as perhaps they still do. For, strange as it may seem in these matter-of-fact days, there are people still living who not only hold that there are Piskeys, but say they have actually seen them! These stories are given to the world in the hope that many besides children, for whom they are specially written, will find them interesting, and all lovers of folk-lore will be grateful to know that the iron horse and other modern inventions have not yet succeeded in driving away the Small People, nor in banishing the weird legends from our loved ‘land of haunting charm.’ 10% of the publisher’s profit from the sale from this book will be donated to Charities. ============= KEYWORDS: folklore, fairy, Tales, children, stories, bedtime, fables, illustrated, myths, legends, Adventures of a Piskey, Search, Laugh, Laughter, Legend, Padstow Doombar, Little, Cake-bird, Impounded, Crows, Piskeys’ Revenge, Old Sky Woman, Reefy, Rum, Little Horses, Horsemen of Padstow, Jan Brewer, Piskey-laden, Small People, Fair, Aunt Betsy, Work, carry, Carried, Beds, Fairy Whirlwind, Plymouth, Exeter, Torquay, Paignton, Exmouth, Barnstaple, Newton Abbot, Tiverton, Brixham, Bideford, Falmouth, Penzance, Camborne, Newquay, St Austell, Truro, Essa, Bodmin, bodmin moor, Rough Tor, Siblyback Lake, De Lank River, Garrow Tor, St Neots, King Arthur's Hall, Kilmar Tor, Hawk's Tor, Bude, St Austell, St Ives, Newquay, Jamaica Inn, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Fingle Bridge, Gara Point, Upper Plym, Trowlesworthy Tor, Heddon Valley, Mount St. Michael, St Michael's Mount, Marazion
Download or read book Jack the Giant Killer Illustrated written by Joseph Jacobs and published by The Planet. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack the Giant Killer is the famous English fairy tale about a brave lad slaying hideous giants. Color illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Download or read book Cornish Notes Queries written by Cornish Telegraph and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TWO CORNISH LEGENDS THE SPECTRE COACH and ST NEOT THE PIGMY SAINT written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 261 In this 261st issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Cornish legends of “THE SPECTRE COACH and ST. NEOT, THE PIGMY SAINT.” In THE SPECTRE COACH, Baba Indaba tells of the parson of Talland, a quaint little sea-village near Looe, who was a singular man named Dodge. Parson Dodge's reputation was that of being able to lay ghosts to rest and command evil spirits. Although the country folk were rather terrified of their vicar, they had the utmost faith in his powers. As it happened that the good folk of Lanreath, a few miles away, were suffering severely from a wild spirit that frequented the high moor in their parish. It was said that the ghost was that of an avaricious landowner who had wasted his fortune in lawsuits, attempting unjustly to seize a wide stretch of common-land from the villagers. Disappointment had killed him, but in the spirit world he could find no rest, for he used to return at nights to the land he had coveted, and drive wildly about in a black coach drawn by six sable, headless horses, much to the terror of the country folk. So the rector of Lanreath decided at last to appeal to Parson Dodge to come over and exorcise the wandering spirit. Well was Parson Dodge successful and was he able to give the villagers peace of mind? Well, you will have to download and read the story to find out! In our second story, Baba Indaba narrates the story of ST. NEOT, THE PIGMY SAINT. St Neot is reported to have lived in the 9th century as a monk in Cornwall. He is reported to have met King Alfred the Great and is mentioned in Bishop Asser's “Life of King Alfred”. He is thought to have died around AD 870. Herein are two legends of St Neot. Both are surely the strangest, for he was, so the old traditions have it, a pigmy, perfectly formed, yet only fifteen inches in height (although this is thought to be an exageration.) There are very many stories told of this tiny holy man, and most of them seem to show that he wielded a great power over all animals. One of the prettiest stories is of the time when St. Neot presided over his abbey and there came one night thieves to the monastic farm and stole all the monks' plough oxen. The poor brothers had not the money to purchase other beasts, and seed-time was upon them with their fields yet unploughed. Ruin seemed certain until the good little abbot appealed to the wild beasts to come to their aid. And then, to the amazement of the monks, there came from the surrounding forests wild stags, who docilely offered their necks to the yoke and drew the heavy ploughs. Each night the stags were released, and they went off to the woods; but each succeeding morning they returned to continue their task. The news of this miraculous happening spread rapidly abroad and came at last to the ears of the thieves. They were so deeply impressed by the story that they returned the stolen oxen at once and promised never again to pursue their evil ways. But what of the second legend of St. Neot? Well, you’ll just have to download and read the story to find out what it is. BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES FOR ONLY $1 33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
Download or read book The Folklore of Cornwall written by Ronald M. James and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piskies, mermaids, giants, and a revenant bridegroom: the stuff of legend. In the hands of skilled storytellers - the famed droll tellers of Cornwall - the result was magical. Considered in the context of narratives throughout Northern Europe, enchantment can be understood as well as enjoyed in this new way to look at Cornwall. 10b&w illus.
Download or read book A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends written by Martyn Whittock and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends. Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the origins and significance of the myths. Since all records of the myths first occur in the early medieval period, the focus is on the survival of pre-Christian mythology and the interactions of the early Christian writers with these myths. A wide-ranging and enthralling introduction to Celtic mythology, from the Irish gods before gods, the Fomorians, to the children of Llyr, the sea deity; from the hunter-warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill, whose exploits are chronicled in the Fenian Cycle, to Cú Chulainn, the Hound of Ulster; and from the Welsh heroes of the Mabinogion to Arthur, King of Britain, though the mythical, Welsh version who predates the medieval legends.
Download or read book From Granite to Sea written by Alex Langstone and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first ever comprehensive focus on the folklore of eastern Cornwall, an ancient land steeped in legend and myth. It is populated by piskies, giants, and conjurors as well as the Devil's Dandy Dogs and the demonic specter of Tregeagle. Alex Langstone's ground-breaking study shares old tales of witches, charmers, supernatural encounters, and curious customs.
Download or read book Celtic Mythology History of Celts Religion Archeological Finds Legends Myths written by J. A. MacCulloch and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited collection present the mythology, religion, history and the legacy of Celts. Contents: Introduction: Earliest References Golden Age of the Celts Alliances with the Greeks The Era of Alexander the Great The Sack of Rome Celtic Place-names in Europe Early Celtic Art Celts and Germans Downfall of the Celtic Empire Unique Historical Position of Ireland The Celtic Character Cæsar's Account Strabo on the Celts Polybius Diodorus Ammianus Marcellinus What Europe Owes to the Celt Religion: The Religion of the Celts The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts The Irish Mythological Cycle The Tuatha dé Danann The Gods of the Brythons The Cúchulainn Cycle The Fionn Saga Gods and Men The Cult of the Dead Primitive Nature Worship River and Well Worship Tree and Plant Worship Animal Worship Cosmogony Sacrifice, Prayer, and Divination Tabu Festivals Accessories of Cult The Druids Magic The State of the Dead Rebirth and Transmigration Elysium The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries Myths: Mythic Powers of the Gods Myths of Origins The Irish Invasion Myths The Early Milesian Kings Tales of the Ultonian Cycle Tales of the Ossianic Cycle The Voyage of Maeldūn Myths and Tales of the Cymry The Mabinogion
Download or read book Legends of Cornwall written by Sally Jones and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
