Hello and welcome to Somewhere in West Cornwall. My name is Lisa: I am a writer and Post-Graduate Doctoral research student, exploring the folklore of west Cornwall, as recorded by Victorian writers William Bottrell and Robert Hunt in their respective Cornish story collections (published 1865-80). Robert Hunt’s two-volume Popular Romances of the west of England (published together in 1865) and William Bottrell’s two-volume Traditions and Hearthside Stories of west Cornwall (1870/73) and single-volume Stories and Folklore of west Cornwall (1880) became, and remain, founding texts in the study of Corish folklore. Join me as I venture Somewhere in west Cornwall, visiting the people and places of Cornish folklore …
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