A Cornish Bestiary
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A Cornish Bestiary

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A Cornish Bestiary

About this book

Did you hear about the Redruth girl who vomited snails?

Or how the saint of Gunwalloe saved his sister's eye from a goose?

Can you cure warts with a slug, or whooping cough with spiders?

In A Cornish Bestiary you'll find familiar faunal favourites like the red-eyed Owlman, ominous Black Dogs and the iconic Cornish Chough, alongside more reclusive specimens.

From Camborne's frog king and Ladock's feathered fiend to a horrifying plague of flies and an absence of wolves, this illustrated compendium of Cornwall's most curious creatures brings together stories from natural history and folklore, broadside ballads and news reports, celebrating the wonderful history we share with the animals around us.

Information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2026
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781837052820
Subtopic
Zoology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Bats
  7. The Bear-Horse of Samuel Drew
  8. The Beast of Bodmin
  9. Beavers
  10. The Bigfoot of St Mawgan
  11. The Black Bull of Mylor
  12. Black Dogs
  13. The Black Kangaroo-Koala-Cat of Swanpool
  14. The Chough and the King
  15. The Cornish Chough, by John Harris
  16. Cornish Fish Language
  17. The Daisy Dog
  18. Dandy Dogs
  19. Daniel Defoe and the Saltash Dog Saint
  20. The Deer and the Saints
  21. The Demon Chicken of Lanreath
  22. Dragons
  23. The Feathered Fiend of Ladock
  24. The First Cornish Mole
  25. The First Lobster at Mevagissey
  26. Foxes
  27. The Ghost Dogs of St Agnes
  28. The Goonhilly Pony
  29. The Goose of Winwaloe
  30. The Guinea Pigs and the Wolf
  31. Hares
  32. Hawker’s Pig
  33. The Helston Galah
  34. The Impounded Crows
  35. The Invasion of the Devil-Fish
  36. John Skewes, Frog King
  37. Ken Trengove’s Miniature Zoo
  38. King William’s Goat Spectre
  39. The Kraken
  40. The Lion Man of Roche
  41. The Little Dogs of Wheal Vor
  42. Magical Holy Fish
  43. The Mallard
  44. The Mare’s Egg, by Marianne Gervis
  45. St Michael and the Conger Eel, by J. Henry Harris
  46. Morgawr, or the Fessie
  47. Moths
  48. To a Mouse, by John Harris
  49. Obsolete Animal Words
  50. One Day at a Perranporth Pet-Shop, by Charles Causley
  51. The Owlman of Mawnan Smith
  52. Peter, the White Cat of Trenarren
  53. Pilchards
  54. Robins
  55. Sayings and Superstitions
  56. Sea Ghosts
  57. Sea Serpents
  58. Seals and Seal Music
  59. A Slug Charm
  60. Snails
  61. Snakes and Snake Stones
  62. The Song of the Red Herring
  63. Spiders
  64. Strange and True Newes of an Ocean of Flies
  65. The Sweet Nightingale
  66. Thomas Tonkin’s Cornish Fish Verse
  67. Toads
  68. Twrch Trwyth
  69. Weird Fish
  70. Wolves
  71. Afterword
  72. Notes and Sources
  73. Acknowledgements

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