Cornish Witchcraft
- Book ID:
- 8240
- Title:
- Cornish Witchcraft
- Subtitle:
- The Confessions of a Westcountry Witch-finder
- Author:
- 'Paynter, William Henry'
- ISBN number:
- 9780954683931
- Publisher name:
- Privately Printed
- Place of publication:
- Liskeard, Cornwall
- Edition number:
- 1st
- Book type:
- Paperback
- First edition date:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 135
- Dewey decimal number:
- 133.43094237 PAY
- Dust jacket:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Photographs:
- No
- Illustrations:
- No
- Bibliography:
- No
- Height (cm):
- 23
- Width (cm):
- 15.5
- Notes:
Companion volume to The Cornish Witch-Finder (Museum Library id. 133.43094237 PAY 5072).
With a Foreword by Jason Semmens.
William Henry Paynter ran a museum in East Looe, which included examples of Cornish folk magic, and is likely to have been visited by Cecil Williamson. The collection here includes some charms sold at Paynter's museum (Museum Object Nos. 2994 - 2996), and also a witch doll found among Paynter's personal effects (2891), and donated by his grandson Jeremy Tucker.
Chapters:
Proofs of the Belief in Witchcraft
The Great Witch-finder
The Evil Eye
Present-day Sufferers
Witching Hours
Some Cornish Witches
Charms
Tamsin Blight and Jimmy the Wizard
Moon Magic
Snake Lore
Love and Magic
Witchcraft and Children
Westcountry Witch Trials
The Fairies
Trees and Flowers in Witchcraft