DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL

'Ye dames who braid your amber hair
With shrewd device, the heart to snare,
Oh! lend an ear to me!

Cease for a time to smile or speak,
And on each white hand lean your cheek;
I sing of witchery.'

C. KIRKPATRICK SHARPE'S Metrical Legends.

RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON

Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty

1874

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LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

PREFACE.

THE EDITOR of this work has little to say in the way of preface. She has no claim to originality for the Superstitions, Customs, and Legends of the sister counties. Devonshire and Cornwall have, for the greater part, been collected from existing writings of local and other authorities; and her researches have been facilitated by a personal knowledge of many of the places described. She begs that indulgence may be extended to this her first venture in the literary world; and she offers her sincere acknowledgments for kind communications received from those whose names are herein recorded:

The Rev. H. A. BAUMGARTNER, Vicar of Mevagissey.

The Rev. R. BLACKMORE, Vicar of Merther.

The Rev. F. W. COLLISON, Rector of Marwood.

The Rev. SIDNEY W. CORNISH, Vicar of Ottery St. Mary.

The Rev. W. F. H. EALES, Vicar of Yealmpton.