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TRADITIONS AND HEARTHSIDE STORIES OF WEST CORNW...

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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