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TRADITIONS

AND

HEARTHSIDE STORIES

OF
WEST CORNWALL
BY

WILLIAM BOTTRELL

(AN OLD CELT)

"Meantime the village rouses up the fire;
While well attested, and as well believ’d,
Heard solemn, goes the goblin story round;
Till superstitious horror creeps o’er all."
Thompson

PENZANCE:

1870

Printed for the Author, by W. Cornish, The Library, Green Market

Scanned, proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare at sacred-texts.com, November 2008. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.

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