Index.

Ancient Bridal Customs, 237 ——— Coins found at Castle Maen, 127 ——— Mariners' Stories, 149 A night's ride to Scilly, 233 Ballowal, the knockers of (fairy tale), 185 Baranhuel, a Queen's visit to, 67 ———— fairies' cow, 73 ———— shell room, 72, 274 Beatrice I'an, or Ivan, 104 ————— her death, 118 Betty Stoggs's baby (fairy tale), 205 Bevan, the Rev. James, 197 Bewitching a dairy, 65 Bob 'o the Carn (fairy tale), 173 Boleit, ancient monuments of, 29 Books popular in the West Country a century ago, 197 Boscawen-un circle, 34 Boskenna, 36 Boslow, the Piskey of, 158 Brea, or Bray, 42, 200, 278 Brea-Vean, the Changeling of (fairy tale), 200 Breage, St., visits her brother, St. Levan, 145 Bridal customs, ancient, still in vogue, 237 Buccaneering, 45 Bucka, offerings to, 187, 246 Buryan fair, 39 ——— Sanctuary, men of, 269 ——— wise-woman or fortune-teller of, 47 Calling of the cleeves, 216 Cardews of Boskenna, the last of, 38 Castle Treen, traditions of 130, 138 —— Maen, or Men, 127 Changeling of Brea-Vean, 200 ———— how to get rid of one, 202 Chapel Uny Well, 199 Charms, 243 Chyannor, Tom of, the tin-streamer, 72 Chynance, 116 Clarice de Boleit, inscription on her tomb, 29 Conjurors, pellars, or wise-men, 20, 76, 276 Crick-stone, the, or Men-an-tol, 242 Cursing Psalm, the, 229, 231 Danes, traditions of their incursions, 127, 141, 274 Daunce-Mayn, 33 Death-ship, the, 248 Demon, a, spinning, 5 Den-an-Dynas, the giant and his wife, 137 Devil's money, 227 Divination, 131, 217, 245, 283 Doctresses of the West Country, 49 Duffy and a Devil, an old guise-dance, 1 Enchanter, the, of Pengersec, 263 ———— of Maen and a thief, 265, 267 Escols, a strong man of, 31 —— weavers of, 196 Faction fight in Buryan Church-town, 215 Fairy dwelling on Selena Moor, 94 —— fair, 161 —— master, the, 173 —— tales, 73, 94, 102, 154, 168, 173, 185, 200 Fairies, how they may be driven away, 75 ——— old folks' notions respecting, 101, 245 Flowers, planting on graves, an old West Country custom, 114 Fortune-tellers, 49, 276 Garrack-zans, 77, 150 Ghost stories, 122, 152, 217, 230 —— laying, 124 Ghostly ship's-bell, a, 277 Giants of Castle Treen, 131, 137 Goblins of the Mines, 187 Guise-dances, how performed, 2 Gulthise (harvest feast), 95 Gwinear, the slighted damsel of, 229 Haunted houses, 122, 212 Hella-point, mermaids of, 151 Hell-hounds, 66 Heimskringla, the, of Snorri Surlusson, account in of Northmen marauding Cornwall, &c., 274 Hilla-ridden, 236 Holed stones, 31, 242, 280 Hooper of Cowloe, the, 247 Hostess, the, of Market-jew, 82 Hurling, 24 Husbandry, old, 195 I'ans, their house in Treen, 103 —— ghosts of, 122 —— a Breton descendant of, 125 Ill-wishing, 63, 65, 285, 286 Ivy-leaves and rushes, divination by, 217, 283 Johanna, the foolish, her garden, 146 ——— rebukes St. Levan for fishing on a Sunday, 148 Just, St., feast of, 154, 170 Kaerkeis bowjey, 127 Key, the, of Castle Treen, 130 Knackers of Ballowal (fairy tale), 185 Levan, St., legends of, 145 ———— stone, 147 ———— his path, 146, 272 ———— witches, 139 Long stones, or Menheeres of Boleit, 30 ————— places named from numerous, 31 Lovell, Madam, her troubles, 21 —— or Levelis, family of, 271 Loyal hearts of Buryan, 69 Madron well and chapel, 239 Marriage usages, ancient, 237, 239 Mayor of Market-jew, a, 83 Merchants of Treen, the, 81 Merlin's prophesies, 130, 147 Mermaid of Zennor, the, 288 Midsummer bonfires, 287 Miners' stories, 187, 191 Miracle-plays, performed at Sancreed, 269 Morvah man, a, shopping, 207 Nelly Wearne, the story of, 38 Nicknames, 198 Night's ride, a, to Scilly, 233 Noy, Mr. William, in a fairy dwelling, 97 Noy, Madam, and the witch, 63 —— family of, 274 Olaf, the first Christian king of Norway, his conversion at Scilly, 275 Parchapel well, 148 Parcurnow, traditions of, 140 Pargwartha, legend of, 149 Parish clerks sixty years ago, 169 Pellars, or wise-men, 76, 191 Penance, doing in Buryan Church, 55 Penberth, a cottage dwelling at, 111 Pendar, Madam, receiving a Queen, 68 ——— family of, 72, 95, 119, 223 Pendeen of old, 166, 279 Pengersec, legends of, 251 ———— the magician, 264 Penrose, the smugglers of, 212 ——— family, 223 Phantom lover, a, takes off his affianced, 152 Piskey, how he left Boslow, 168 ——— led, 160 ——— threshing, 159 Plan-an-guarre, St. Just, 268 Polkinghorne, Parson, an exorcist, 125 Queen's, a, visit to Baranhuel, 67 Robbers, the, and merchants of Treen, 87 Roskestal, Garrack-zans in, 148, 151 Rosmoddrass, monuments of, 27 Sanctuary men of Buryan, 260 "Sancras," miracle-play at, 269 Scilly, a night's ride to, 233 —— visited by King Olaf, 275 Selena Moor, a fairy dwelling on, 94 Shovel, Admiral Sir Cloudesly, his wreck at Scilly, 231 ——— his grave, 233 Slighted damsel, the, of Gwinear, 229 Small-people, see fairies. Smugglers, 57, 106 ———— the, of Penrose, 212 Spinning, 5, 25, 105 Sweethearts' Cove, the, 149 Sun, the, never shines on a person that has sworn way a life, 249 Tarraway, the spinning demon, 16 Tinners' stories, 185 Tolmen of Constantine, the, 280 Tom Trenoweth's bewitched sow, 61 —— of Chyannor, the tin-streamer, 77 ———— gets three pieces of wisdom in lieu of wages, 80 ———— his welcome home, 89 Tredrill, the changeling, 201 Treen, a market town, in old times, 78 ——— the I'an's house of, 103 ——— Dynas, 127 Tregagle bound to Gwenvor, 224 ——— the roaring of, 226 Uncle Will Ben's fiddle and sayings, 170 Vellan Dreath, the burning of, 279 Vow, the, of Pendeen, 28, 167 —— spirit of the, 167 Weddings, old fashioned customs at, 237, 239 Wells, holy, 128, 148, 239, 201 Wetherel, Capt., his grave and ghostly ship's-bell, 277 White hare, an injured woman's spirit takes the form of a, 253 Wise-woman, the, of Buryan Church-town, 47 Witches, 12, 59, 63, 65, 75, 139, 255, 265 Zennor man's will, a, 210 ——— mermaid of, 288