GUERNSEY FOLK-LORE.
Reading edition
SIR EDGAR MacCULLOCH
In his Robes as Bailiff of Guernsey.
GUERNSEY FOLK-LORE
A COLLECTION OF POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS, LEGENDARY TALES, PECULIAR CUSTOMS, PROVERBS, WEATHER SAYINGS, ETC., OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT ISLAND.
FROM MSS. BY THE LATE SIR EDGAR MacCULLOCH, Knt., F.S.A., &c. Bailiff of Guernsey.
Edited by Edith F. Carey.
ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF OLD PRINTS, ETC.
LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. Guernsey: F. Clarke, States Arcade. 1903.
“IN WINTER’S TEDIOUS NIGHTS SIT BY THE FIRE WITH GOOD OLD FOLKS, AND LET THEM TELL THEE TALES OF WOEFUL AGES LONG AGO BETID.” —K. RICHARD II., ACT V., SC. 1.
“LA LEGENDE, LE MYTHE, LA FABLE, SONT, COMME LA CONCENTRATION DE LA VIE NATIONALE, COMME DES RESERVOIRS PROFONDS OU DORMENT LE SANG ET LES LARMES DES PEUPLES.”—BAUDELAIRE.