EAN: 9788027287628

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Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall by William Bottrell is a book about the social life and customs of West Cornwall County. Excerpt: ASSOCIATED with Trove and the ancient family who lived for many generations in that pleasant place there is a tradition that one old Squire Lovell wedded a poor girl solely because he believed her to be the best spinster and knitster in Buryan but that all the fine stockings and other knitted garments with which she provided her husband were made by a devil. This droll formed the subject of an old Guise-dance (Christmas Play) which is all but forgotten: yet in our youth we have heard a few scenes rehearsed which may be interesting as an example of a primitive drama of West Penwith that may have succeeded or been contemporary with the miracle plays which about three centuries ago were acted in the Plan-an-gwarre St. Just and at the Church-town cross in most other western parishes.

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