The Historical Archive Sample Page 17 Rare Historic Books Of
English / Anglo-Saxon / Arthurian Folklore On CD This auction is for a CD containing 17 Rare and Fascinating Historicbooks detailing English, Anglo-Saxon and Arthurian Folklore and Mythology.
Below is a breakdown of the books and their contents by region. The book titles are bolded and the contents are in the bullet points below each book. All books are complete - including any illustrations that were in the original hardcopy books.
All books are supplied in PDF format and are fully searchable.
Folklore
A Book of Old English Ballads Illustrations by George Wharton Edwards, Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie 1896
- Chevy Chace
- King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid
- King Leir and his Three Daughters
- Fair Rosamond
- Phillida and Corydon
- Fair Margaret and Sweet William
- Annan Water
- The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
- Barbara Allen's Cruelty
- The Douglas Tragedy
- Young Waters
- Flodden Field
- Helen of Kirkconnell
- Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale
- Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
- Robin Hood's Death and Burial
- The Twa Corbies
- Waly, Waly, Love be Bonny
- The Nut-brown Maid
- The Fause Lover
- The Mermaid
- The Battle of Otterburn
- The Lament of the Border Widow
- The Banks o' Yarrow
- Hugh of Lincoln
- Sir Patrick Spens
Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies by William Crossing 1890 .
- Chapter I: The Moorland Haunts of the Pixies
- Chapter II: The Pixies' Trysting Place
- Chapter III: By the Peat Filled Hearth
- Chapter IV: Lough Tor Hole. The Huccaby Courting
- Chapter V: The Pixie at the Ockerry. Jimmy Townsend and his Sister Race
- Chapter VI: The Ungrateful Farmer.--The Pixy Threshers.--Rewarding a Pixy
- Chapter VII: Nanny Norrish and the Pixies.--The Ploughman's Breakfast.--The Pixy Riders.--Jan Coo
- Chapter VIII: The Borrowed Colts.--The Boulder in the Room.--Vickeytoad.--Modilla and Podilla
- Chapter IX: The Lost Path.--The Pixies' Revel.--Conclusion
Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt 1903 .
- The Age of the Giants
- Corineus and Gogmagog
- The Giants of the Mount
- The Key of the Giant's Castle
- The Rival Giants
- The Giants of Trencrom, or Trecrobben
- The Giants at Play
- Holibun of the Cairn
- The Giant of Nancledry
- Trebiggan the Giant
- The Lord of Pengerswick and the Giant of St. Michael's Mount
- The Giant of St. Michael's Mount loses his wife
- Tom and the Giant Blunderbuss or, The Wheel and Exe Fight
- Tom the Giant, his wife Jane and Jack the Tinkeard
- How Tom and the Tinkeard found the Tin, and how it led to Morva Fair
- The Giant of Morva
- The Giant Bolster
- The Hack and Cast
- The Giant Wrath, or Ralph
- Ordulph the Giant
- The Elfin Creed of Cornwall
- Nursing a Fairy
- Changelings
- The Lost Child
- A Native Pigsey Story
- The Night-Riders
- The Fairy Tools, or Barker's Knee
- The Piskies in the Cellar
- The Spriggans of Trencrom Hill
- The Fairy Miners - the Knockers
- The Spriggan's Child
- The Piskies' Changeling
- The Pixies of Dartmoor
- The Fairy Fair in Germoe
- St Margery and the Piskies
- The Fairy Revels on the Gump St. Just
- The Fairy Funeral
- The Fairy Revel
- Betty Stogs and Jan the Mounster
- The Four-leaved Clover
- The Fairy Ointment
- How Joan Lost the Sight of her Eye
- The Old Woman who turned her Shift
- The Fairy Widower
- The Small People's Gardens
- St Levan Fairies
- The Adventures of Cherry of Zennor
- Anne Jeffries and the Fairies
- The Piksie Threshers
- The Muryan's Bank
- The Demon Tregeagle
- Jahn Tergagle the Steward
- Dosmery Pool
- The Wish Hounds
- Chaney's Hounds
- Morva or Morveth
- Merrymaids and Merrymen
- The Mermaid of Padstow
- The Mermaid of Rock
- The Mermaid of Seaton
- The Old Man of Cury
- The Mermaid's Vengence
- Cromlech and Druid Stones
- The Logan or Loging Rock
- Mincamber, Main-Amber or Ambrose's Stone
- Zennor Coits
- The Men-an-Tol
- The Crick Stone in Morva
- The Dancing Stones, the Hurlers &c
- The Nine Maids, or Virgin Sisters
- The Twelve-o'-clock Stone
- The Men-Scryfa
- Table-Men--The Saxon's Kings Visit to the Land's End
- Merlyn's Prophecies
- The Armed Knight
- The Irish Lady
- The Devil's Doorway
- Piper's Hole, Scilly
- The Devil's Coit &c
- King Arthur's Stone
- The Cock-Crow Stone
- Lost Lands
- The Tradition of Lyonesse or Lethowsow
- Cudden Point and the Silver Table
- The Padstow Hobby Horse
- St Michsel's Mount - The White Rock in the Wood
- Gwavas Lake
- The City of Langarrow or Langona
- The Sands at Lelant and Phillack
- The island, St Ives
- The Chapel Rock, Perran-Porth
- Fire Worship
- Baal Fires
- The Garrack Zans, or Holy Rock
- Fire Ordeal for the Cure of Disease
- Burning Animals Alive
- The Hooting Cairn
- Jago's Demon
- Peter the Devil
- Dando and his Dogs
- The Devil and his Dandy-Dogs
- The Spectral Coach
- Sir Francis Drake and his Demon
- The Parson and his Clerk
- The Haunted Widower
- The Spectre Bridegroom
- Duffy and the Devil
- The Lovers of Porthangwartha
- The Ghost of Rosewarne
- The Suicide's Spearman
- The Suicide's Ghost
- The Ha-af a Face
- The Warning
- Laying a Ghost
- A Flying Spirit
- The Execution and Wedding
- The Lugger of Croft Pasco Pool
- Legends of the Saints
- Legends of the Saints
- The Crowza Stones
- The Longstone
- St Sennen and St Just
- The Saint and Johana
- The Saint's Path
- The St Leven Stone
- The Two Breams
- St Keyne
- St Dennis's Blood
- St Kea's Boat
- St German's Well
- How St Piran reached Cornwall
- St Peran, the Miner's Saint
- The Discovery of Tin
- St Neot, the Pigmy
- St Neot and the Fox
- St Neot and the Doe
- St Neot and the Thieves
- St Neot and the Fishes
- Probus and Grace
- St Nectan's Kieve and the Lonely Sisters
- Theodore, King of Cornwall
- Well Worship
- The Well of St Constantine
- The Well of St Ludgvan
- Gulval Well
- The Well of St Keyne
- Maddern or Madron Well
- The Well of Altar-Nun
- St Gundred's Well at Roach Rock
- St Cuthbert's or Cubert's Well
- Rickety Children
- Chapell Uny
- Perran Well
- Redruth Well
- Holy Well at Little Conan
- The Preservation of Holy Wells
- Arthur Legends
- The Battle of Vellan-druchan
- Arthur at the Land's End
- Traditions of the Danes in Cornwall
- King Arthur in the Form of a Chough
- The Cornish Chough
- Slaughter Bridge
- Camelford and King Arthur
- Dameliock Castle
- Carlian in Kea
- The Cunning Man
- Notes on Witchcraft
- Ill-wishing
- The Peller
- Bewitched Cattle
- How to become a Witch
- Cornish Sorcerors
- How Pengerswick became a Sorcerer
- The Lord of Pengerswick an Enchanter
- The Witch of Fraddam and Pengerswick
- Trewa, the Home of Witches
- Kenidzhak Witch
- The Witches of the Logan Stone
- Madgy Figgy's Chair
- Old Mage Figgy and the Pig
- Madame Noy and Old Joan
- The Witch of Treva
- How Mr Lenine gave up Courting
- The Witch and the Toad
- The Sailor Wizard
- Traditions of Tinners
- Traditions of Tinners
- The Tinner of Chryannor
- Who are the Knockers?
- Miner's Superstitions
- Christmas-Eve in the Mines
- Warnings and Tokens
- The Ghost on Horseback
- The Black Dogs
- Pitmen's Omens and Goblins
- The Dead Hand
- Dorcas, the Spirit of Polbreen Mine
- Hingston Downs
- The Pilot's Ghost Story
- The Phantom Lights
- Jack Harry's Lights
- The Pirate Wrecker and the Death Ship
- The Spectre Ship of Porthcuno
- The Lady with the Lantern
- The Drowned Hailing their Names
- The Voice from the Sea
- The Smuggler's Token
- The Hooper of Sennen Cove
- How to Eat Pilchards
- Pilchards Crying for More
- The Pressing-Stones
- Whipping the Hake
- The Death Token of the Vingoes
- The Death Fetch of William Rufus
- Sir John Arundell
- Phantoms of the Dying
- The White Hare
- The Hand of a Suicide
- The North Side of a Church
- Popular Superstitions
- Sanding the Step on New Year's Day
- May-Day
- Shrove Tuesday at St Ives
- The Furry--Helstone
- Midsummer Superstitious Customs
- Crying the Neck
- Drinking the Apple-Trees on Twelfth-Night Eve
- Allhallows-Eve at St Ives
- The Twelfth Cake
- Oxen Pray on Christmas-Eve
- St George--The Christmas Plays
- Geese-Dancing--Plough Monday
- Christmas at St Ives
- Lady Lovell's Courtship
- The Game of Hurling
- The Mayor of Mylor
- The Mayor of St Germans
- The Mayor of Halgaver Moor
- The Faction Fight at Cury Great Tree
- Towednack Cuckoo Feast
- The Duke of Restormel
English Fairy and Other Folk Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland, Illustrated by C.E. Brock 1890
- Jack the Giant Killer
- The Princess of Canterbury
- The Princess of Colchester
- Mr Fox
- Tom Tit Tot
- Jack and the Bean-stalk
- The Story of Sain Kenelm
- Wild Edric
- Lady Godiva
- The Legend of the Sons of the Conqueror
- The Lgend of Becket's Parents
- The Fause Fable of the Lord Lathom
- Whittington and his Cat
- The Pedlar of Swaffham
- The Lampton Worm
- Bomere Pool
- The Origin of the Wrekin
- The Blinded Giant
- Worcestershire Fairies
- The Fairy Midwife
- The Adventure of Cherry of Zennor
- The Fairy Funeral
- The Piskies in the Cellar
- Edwin and Sir Topaz
- The Two Serving Damsels
- The Tulip Bed
- The Fisherman and the Piskies
- A Fairy Caught
- Colman Grey
- The King of the Cats
- A Myth of Midridge
- The Green Children
- The Fairy Banquet
- The Fairy Horn
- The Fairy Fair
- The Fairies' Caldron
- The Cauld Lad of Hilton
- The Fairy Thieves
- The Boggart
- Ainsel
- Legend of the Rollright Stones
- Dando and His Dogs
- The Demon Tregeagle
- The Pason and Clerk
- Outwitting the Bogie
- The Hunted Hare
- The Well of St. Ludgvan
- The Hedley Kow
- The Lord of Pengerswick
- The Witch and the Toad
- Witch and Hare
- The Hand of Glory
- Betty Chidley The Witch
- The Bag of Flour
- Kentsham Bell
- A Bishop's Ghost
- A Clergyman's Ghost
- The Haunted House
- Ghost-Laying Stories
- The Roaring Bull of Bagbury
- The White Lady of Blenkinsopp
- The Haunted Widower
- The Ghost of Rosewarne
- The Lady with the Lantern
- Spectre-Dogs
- Billy B -'s Adventure
- The Wise Fools of Gotham
- The Three Wishes
- The Miller at the Professor's Examination
- Stupid's Mistaken Cries
- The Three Sillies
- Mr Vinegar
- Lazy Jack
- The History of Tom Thumb
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten 1890
- Tom Tit Tot
- The Three Sillies
- The Rose-Tree
- The Old Woman and Her Pig
- How Jack Went to Seek his Fortune
- Mr Vinegar
- Nix Nought Nothing
- Jack Hannaford
- Binnorie
- Mouse and Mouser
- Cap O' Rushes
- Teeny-Tiny
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The Story of the Three Little Pigs
- The Master and His Pupil
- Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
- Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
- The Story of the Three Bears
- Jack the Giant-Killer
- Henny-Penny
- Childe Rowland
- Molly Whuppie
- The Red Ettin
- The Golden Arm
- The History of Tom Thumb
- Mr Fox
- Lazy Jack
- Johnny-Cake
- Earl Mar's Daughter
- Mr Miacca
- Whittington and His Cat
- The Strange Visitor
- The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh
- The Cat and the Mouse
- The Fish and the Ring
- The Magpie's Nest
- Kate Crackernuts
- The Cauld Lad of Hilton
- The Ass, The Table and the Stick
- Fairy Ointment
- The Well of the World's End
- Master of all Masters
- The Three Heads of the Well
More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten 1894
- The Pied Piper
- Hereafterthis
- The Golden Ball