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    LEGEND LAND Vol. 2 - 15 legends from England's West country
    LEGEND LAND Vol. 2 - 15 legends from England's West country
    LEGEND LAND Vol. 2 - 15 legends from England's West country
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    LEGEND LAND Vol. 2 - 15 legends from England's West country

    By Anon E. Mouse and Retold by Lyonesse

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    The myths and legends of England’s South West are full of what is called "local colour" and are richer in legend than any other part. The legends in this volume are infused with Celtic poetry and symbolism, inherent in the blood of the people of the West They afford us not only glimpses of ancient times and of old habits of thought and life, but also of the country itself at different times of the year. Stories like THE LOST LAND OF LYONESSE which for part of the Arthurian legends, home to Tristan, which is said to have sunk beneath the waves.
    However, almost 100 years ago, the Great Western Railway realised the value of these stories to travellers and has saved 12 of these precious remnants of old England and put them into print for us.

    The stories in this volume are:
    The Church the Devil Stole
    The Parson and the Clerk
    The Weaver of Dean Combe
    The Demon Who Helped Drake
    The Samson of Tavistock
    The Midnight Hunter of the Moor
    The Lost Land of Lyonesse
    The Piskie's Funeral
    The Spectre Coach
    St. Neot, the Pigmy Saint
    The Old Man of Cury
    The Hooting Carn
    The Padstow May Day Songs (Supplement)

    Because so many old stories were passed on orally by storytellers, with the advent of the industrial revolution printed books became more common and these stories became “lost” as less attended the once popular storytelling sessions. Then in 1870 the UK Education Act undertook to teach all children how to read and the art of storytelling all but died out altogether.
    This volume is sure to keep you enchanted for hours, if only not because of the content, but because of their quality, and will have you and your young wards coming back for more time-and-again.
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    KEYWORDS/TAGS: folklore, fairy tales, myths, legends, children’s stories, bedtime, fables,  wonder tales, West country, myth, legend, land, , Abbey, ancient, awe-inspiring, beasts, beautiful, black, Bodmin, Brent, Buckfast, Buckfastleigh, Buckland, Carn, cave, centuries, Church, clerk , Cornish, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Dawlish, Dean, demon who helped drake , Devil, Devon, discover, Dodge, Drake, Exeter, gates, glorious, golf, grave, Great, headless, heart, Hooting, hooting carn , hound, journey, King, Knowles, lamentation, Land's End, Lanreath, Lelant, Lizard, Looe, lost land of lyonesse , love, magnificent, mermaid, midnight hunter of the moor , miners, moor, moorland, Mullion, neighbour, Neot, night, old man of cury, Bodmin Moor, Ordulph, padstow may day songs , Parson, Penzance, picturesque, piskie's funeral , pixie, Plymouth, prehistoric, priest, Queen, railway, Richard, rock, saint, samson of tavistock , sand-hills, Scillies, Isles of Scilly, sea, Seven, spectre coach , spectre-pack, spirit, st. neot the pigmy saint , stole , Stones, stupendous, Talland, Tavistock, Tavy, thieves, thunder, Tor, transform, weaver of dean combe , weird, West, wild, Wish, world
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateJul 31, 2018
    ISBN9788828367123
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      LEGEND LAND Vol. 2 - 15 legends from England's West country - Anon E. Mouse

      LEGEND LAND

      Volume Two

      Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES

      told in those Western Parts of Britain

      served by the

      GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY,

      retold by

      Lyonesse

      Originally Published by

      The Great Western Railway, London

      1922

      Resurrected by

      Abela Publishing, London

      [2018]

      Legend Land – Volume 2

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      © Abela Publishing 2018

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing,

      London

      United Kingdom

      2018

      ISBN-13: 978-1-909302-XX-X

      email:

      Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website

      Abela Publishing

      ABELA: Zulu – to share or distribute

      Contents and Illustrations

      The Church the Devil Stole

      The Parson and the Clerk

      The Weaver of Dean Combe

      The Demon Who Helped Drake

      The Samson of Tavistock

      The Midnight Hunter of the Moor

      The Lost Land of Lyonesse

      The Piskie's Funeral

      The Spectre Coach

      St. Neot, the Pigmy Saint

      The Old Man of Cury

      The Hooting Carn

      The Padstow May Day Songs (Supplement)

      This is a reprint in book form of the second series of The Line to Legend Land leaflets, together with a Supplement, The Padstow May Day Songs.

      The above Map provides a guide to the localities of the six Devon legends; that at the back to those of Cornwall.

      Foreword

      The western parts of our country are richer in legend than any other part. Perhaps this is because of the Celtic love of poetry and symbolism inherent in the blood of the people of the West; perhaps because of inspiration drawn from the wild hills and bleak moors of the lands in which they live; perhaps because life is, and always was, quieter there, and people have more time to remember the tales of other days than in busier, more prosaic, districts.

      Most of the Devon legends cluster around the grim wastes of Dartmoor, and, like that wonderful stretch of country, are wild and awe-inspiring. The devil and his wicked works enter largely into them, and there is reason to believe them to be among the oldest tales known to us. Possibly they were not new when the hut circles of the Moor were inhabited and Grimspound was a busy village.

      Some of the Cornish stories told in this series, like the story of Lyonesse and of Parson Dodge and the Spectre Coach, have their beginning in historical fact; yet into the latter story has been woven a tale that is centuries older, in origin, than the days of the eccentric priest of Talland.

      But old tales, like old wine, need nothing but themselves to advertise them. In their time they have entertained—who can say how many hearers through the ages? And they are still good—read or told—to amuse as many more.

      Lyonesse

      The Church

      the Devil Stole

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