Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. Baring-Gould

Description

Baring-Gould knew Cornwall the way its own farmers did — through its lanes, its mine shafts, and its long memory. This book is his harvest of local legend and biography: pirates and parsons, prophets and smugglers, family feuds, buried treasure, and ghostly visitors, each tale set down with the gusto of a man who plainly loved an extraordinary story whether or not it could be believed.

The result is a panorama of the county’s storytelling genius, at once comic and eerie. Some chapters read like a novel, some like a newspaper report, and a few like nothing else in literature; together they preserve a Cornwall that has largely vanished, in all its strangeness and charm.

Why readers still come back to it

• A rich treasury of Cornish legend, folklore, and local biography.
• Written by a Victorian squire who collected the tales first-hand.
• Covers smugglers, prophets, family feuds, and ghost stories.

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