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    Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway
    Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway
    Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway
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    Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway

    By G. Basil (George Basil) Barham

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway

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      Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway - G. Basil (George Basil) Barham

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Legend Land, Volume 2, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: Legend Land, Volume 2

      Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those

      Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway

      Author: Various

      Release Date: January 2, 2007 [EBook #20249]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEGEND LAND, VOLUME 2 ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, David Garcia and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      LEGEND LAND

      Being a collection of some of the

      OLD TALES told in those Western

      Parts of Britain served by the

      GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now

      retold by LYONESSE

      VOLUME TWO

      Published in 1922 by

      THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

      [FELIX J. C. POLE, GENERAL MANAGER]

      PADDINGTON STATION, LONDON

      CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

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

      Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Company Limited,

      One New Street Square, London, E.C.4

      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

      Most travellers to the West know queer little Brent Tor, that isolated church-crowned peak that stands up defiantly a mile or two from Lydford, seeming, as it were, a sentry watching the West for grim Dartmoor that rises twice its height behind it. Burnt Tor, they say,

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