#brythonic folklore

[wilderbas]

rhiannon | arawn | mallt-y-nos a cŵn annwn | pwyll

[wolverinesorcery]

Cornish Witchcraft by Kelvin I Jones

Pamphlet of Cornish witchcraft, posted here because mostly falls under folklore vs hard and fast witchcraft resources. Has some 'celtic soup' - author uses Irish holidays (that're put through Wiccan-ification) rather than the Cornish holidays he's referencing, along with mislabelling of piskeys as fairies/fairy folklore, speculates heavily on a triple goddess type figure (though doesn't outright call it that, references mother/crone aspects) and pre-Christian deities. Mentions Bucca by name for once! Generally pretty fun read though! Delves into a lot of niche Cornish traditions that're largely unrecorded.

Google Drive link (PDF)

Not Exhaustive Content warnings under the cut

Bodily fluids (including blood + urine), animal death| + hunting, human death, drowning, immolation, use of human remains in witchcraft, mentions of various illnesses & parasites, some ableist outdated language

[pysksos]

Traditional witches that read Gemma Gary's interpretation of the Bucca and nothing else: Stop.

You wouldn't call any other Celtic/Brythonic deity the folk devil, or the witch-father, or any other tradcraft figure's name. Don't do it to Cornish celtic deities. The evidence Gary used to support the Bucca as a folk-devil figure comes from half-cited sources. Cornwall has lost enough to half-baked Christianisation. Some Cornish people are actually trying to find information about Them through folkloric sources & archives.

[wilderbas]

folkbruary #6

tristam & iseult

[wolverinesorcery]

A selection of Cornish Folklore books & pamphlets

Lodenek Press

Fairies forever - Corneau, Marie-Helene Arthur's Cornish legend: secrets of the holy grail revealed - Corneau, Marie Helene; Corneau, Jean Cornish Sayings, Superstitions and Remedies - Hawke, Kathleen Traditional Cornish Stories and Rhymes - Rawe, Donald R. Haunted landscapes: Cornish and Westcountry tales of the supernatural - Rawe, Donald R.

Oakmagic Publications

Signs, omens and charms: a Cornish clergyman's guide to the superstitious - Anon Hawker's tales of ghosts & witchcraft - Hawker, R. S: Cornish giants - Bottrell, William; Jones, Kelvin I The little book of ancient charms - Dyer, T. Thiselton The Cornish folklore handbook - Kinsman, John Customs & superstitions of East Cornwall - Couch, Jonathan; Couch, Thomas Weird Cornish tales: three stories of the supernatural - Jones, Kelvin I Folklore & witchcraft of Devon & Cornwall - Jones, Kelvin I Cornwall's wonderland - Quiller-Couch, Mabel The popular mythology of Cornwall. Vol.1, Faeries - Jones, Kelvin I: The Cornish Cross: its Pagan origins - Courtney, R. A. (Richard Acutt) Seven Cornish witches - Jones, Kelvin I Arthur's lost land: the legend sites of North Cornwall - Walters, Jack Cuming Cornwall's ancient stones: a megalithic enquiry - Dymond, C. W Folklore in the Cornish language - Nance, R. Morton (Robert Morton) Bizarre Cornish beliefs - Penn, Peter Cornish folklore collection: witchcraft, spells, charms, cures & superstitions (volume one) - Jones, Kelvin I; Kent, Alan M. associate series editor Superstitious Cornwall - Jones, Kelvin I; The Cornish Magazine and Devon Miscellany; The West of England Magazine Cornish Year: Cornish Folklore, Festivals and Characters Throughout the Year - Clinnick, A.A The popular mythology of Cornwall. vol 3, Giants and ghosts - Jones, Kelvin I Cornwall's pagan heritage - Courtney, Richard Acutt Anne Jefferies and the fairies: and other Cornish fairy tales - Jones, Kelvin I Padstow's faery folk: and other faery tales of North Cornwall - Tregarthen, Enys:

Tor Mark Press

Cornwall's haunted houses - Caine, Margaret; Gorton, Alan Piskies, Spriggans, Knockers and the Small People: Traditional Tales From Cornwall - Anon Classic Cornish ghost stories - White, Paul Cornish Charms & Witchcraft - Anon

[wolverinesorcery]

Anyway. Tangent to last cornwallpost but I'm working on scanning in Cornovia + looking at the library systems for some more hard to get pamphlets. Also thinking of transcribing things for easy searchability + also so they're accessible.