This auction is for a CD containing 17 Rare and Fascinating Historicbooks detailing English, Anglo-Saxon and Arthurian Folklore and Mythology.

Below is a breakdown of the books and their contents by region. The book titles are bolded and the contents are in the bullet points below each book. All books are complete - including any illustrations that were in the original hardcopy books.

All books are supplied in PDF format and are fully searchable.

Folklore

A Book of Old English Ballads Illustrations by George Wharton Edwards, Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie 1896

• Chevy Chace
• King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid
• King Leir and his Three Daughters
• Fair Rosamond
• Phillida and Corydon
• Fair Margaret and Sweet William
• Annan Water
• The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
• Barbara Allen's Cruelty
• The Douglas Tragedy
• Young Waters
• Flodden Field
• Helen of Kirkconnell
• Robin Hood and Allen-a-Dale
• Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
• Robin Hood's Death and Burial
• The Twa Corbies
• Waly, Waly, Love be Bonny
• The Nut-brown Maid
• The Fause Lover
• The Mermaid
• The Battle of Otterburn
• The Lament of the Border Widow
• The Banks o' Yarrow
• Hugh of Lincoln
• Sir Patrick Spens

Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies by William Crossing 1890 .

• Chapter I: The Moorland Haunts of the Pixies
• Chapter II: The Pixies' Trysting Place
• Chapter III: By the Peat Filled Hearth
• Chapter IV: Lough Tor Hole. The Huccaby Courting
• Chapter V: The Pixie at the Ockerry. Jimmy Townsend and his Sister Race
• Chapter VI: The Ungrateful Farmer.--The Pixy Threshers.--Rewarding a Pixy
• Chapter VII: Nanny Norrish and the Pixies.--The Ploughman's Breakfast.--The Pixy Riders.--Jan Coo
• Chapter VIII: The Borrowed Colts.--The Boulder in the Room.--Vickeytoad.--Modilla and Podilla
• Chapter IX: The Lost Path.--The Pixies' Revel.--Conclusion

Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt 1903 .

• The Age of the Giants
• Corineus and Gogmagog
• The Giants of the Mount
• The Key of the Giant's Castle
• The Rival Giants
• The Giants of Trencrom, or Trecrobben
• The Giants at Play
• Holibun of the Cairn
• The Giant of Nancledry
• Trebiggan the Giant
• The Lord of Pengerswick and the Giant of St. Michael's Mount
• The Giant of St. Michael's Mount loses his wife
• Tom and the Giant Blunderbuss or, The Wheel and Exe Fight
• Tom the Giant, his wife Jane and Jack the Tinkeard
• How Tom and the Tinkeard found the Tin, and how it led to Morva Fair
• The Giant of Morva
• The Giant Bolster
• The Hack and Cast
• The Giant Wrath, or Ralph
• Ordulph the Giant
• The Elfin Creed of Cornwall
• Nursing a Fairy
• Changelings
• The Lost Child
• A Native Pigsey Story
• The Night-Riders
• The Fairy Tools, or Barker's Knee
• The Piskies in the Cellar
• The Spriggans of Trencrom Hill
• The Fairy Miners - the Knockers
• The Spriggan's Child
• The Piskies' Changeling
• The Pixies of Dartmoor
• The Fairy Fair in Germoe
• St Margery and the Piskies
• The Fairy Revels on the Gump St. Just
• The Fairy Funeral
• The Fairy Revel
• Betty Stogs and Jan the Mounster
• The Four-leaved Clover
• The Fairy Ointment
• How Joan Lost the Sight of her Eye
• The Old Woman who turned her Shift
• The Fairy Widower
• The Small People's Gardens
• St Levan Fairies
• The Adventures of Cherry of Zennor
• Anne Jeffries and the Fairies
• The Piksie Threshers
• The Muryan's Bank
• The Demon Tregeagle
• Jahn Tergagle the Steward
• Dosmery Pool
• The Wish Hounds
• Chaney's Hounds
• Morva or Morveth
• Merrymaids and Merrymen
• The Mermaid of Padstow
• The Mermaid of Rock
• The Mermaid of Seaton
• The Old Man of Cury
• The Mermaid's Vengence
• Cromlech and Druid Stones
• The Logan or Loging Rock
• Mincamber, Main-Amber or Ambrose's Stone
• Zennor Coits
• The Men-an-Tol
• The Crick Stone in Morva
• The Dancing Stones, the Hurlers &c
• The Nine Maids, or Virgin Sisters
• The Twelve-o'-clock Stone
• The Men-Scryfa
• Table-Men--The Saxon's Kings Visit to the Land's End
• Merlyn's Prophecies
• The Armed Knight
• The Irish Lady
• The Devil's Doorway
• Piper's Hole, Scilly
• The Devil's Coit &c
• King Arthur's Stone
• The Cock-Crow Stone
• Lost Lands
• The Tradition of Lyonesse or Lethowsow
• Cudden Point and the Silver Table
• The Padstow Hobby Horse
• St Michsel's Mount - The White Rock in the Wood
• Gwavas Lake
• The City of Langarrow or Langona
• The Sands at Lelant and Phillack
• The island, St Ives
• The Chapel Rock, Perran-Porth
• Fire Worship
• Baal Fires
• The Garrack Zans, or Holy Rock
• Fire Ordeal for the Cure of Disease
• Burning Animals Alive
• The Hooting Cairn
• Jago's Demon
• Peter the Devil
• Dando and his Dogs
• The Devil and his Dandy-Dogs
• The Spectral Coach
• Sir Francis Drake and his Demon
• The Parson and his Clerk
• The Haunted Widower
• The Spectre Bridegroom
• Duffy and the Devil
• The Lovers of Porthangwartha
• The Ghost of Rosewarne
• The Suicide's Spearman
• The Suicide's Ghost
• The Ha-af a Face
• The Warning
• Laying a Ghost
• A Flying Spirit
• The Execution and Wedding
• The Lugger of Croft Pasco Pool
• Legends of the Saints
• Legends of the Saints
• The Crowza Stones
• The Longstone
• St Sennen and St Just
• The Saint and Johana
• The Saint's Path
• The St Leven Stone
• The Two Breams
• St Keyne
• St Dennis's Blood
• St Kea's Boat
• St German's Well
• How St Piran reached Cornwall
• St Peran, the Miner's Saint
• The Discovery of Tin
• St Neot, the Pigmy
• St Neot and the Fox
• St Neot and the Doe
• St Neot and the Thieves
• St Neot and the Fishes
• Probus and Grace
• St Nectan's Kieve and the Lonely Sisters
• Theodore, King of Cornwall
• Well Worship
• The Well of St Constantine
• The Well of St Ludgvan
• Gulval Well
• The Well of St Keyne
• Maddern or Madron Well
• The Well of Altar-Nun
• St Gundred's Well at Roach Rock
• St Cuthbert's or Cubert's Well
• Rickety Children
• Chapell Uny
• Perran Well
• Redruth Well
• Holy Well at Little Conan
• The Preservation of Holy Wells
• Arthur Legends
• The Battle of Vellan-druchan
• Arthur at the Land's End
• Traditions of the Danes in Cornwall
• King Arthur in the Form of a Chough
• The Cornish Chough
• Slaughter Bridge
• Camelford and King Arthur
• Dameliock Castle
• Carlian in Kea
• The Cunning Man
• Notes on Witchcraft
• Ill-wishing
• The Peller
• Bewitched Cattle
• How to become a Witch
• Cornish Sorcerors
• How Pengerswick became a Sorcerer
• The Lord of Pengerswick an Enchanter
• The Witch of Fraddam and Pengerswick
• Trewa, the Home of Witches
• Kenidzhak Witch
• The Witches of the Logan Stone
• Madgy Figgy's Chair
• Old Mage Figgy and the Pig
• Madame Noy and Old Joan
• The Witch of Treva
• How Mr Lenine gave up Courting
• The Witch and the Toad
• The Sailor Wizard
• Traditions of Tinners
• Traditions of Tinners
• The Tinner of Chryannor
• Who are the Knockers?
• Miner's Superstitions
• Christmas-Eve in the Mines
• Warnings and Tokens
• The Ghost on Horseback
• The Black Dogs
• Pitmen's Omens and Goblins
• The Dead Hand
• Dorcas, the Spirit of Polbreen Mine
• Hingston Downs
• The Pilot's Ghost Story
• The Phantom Lights
• Jack Harry's Lights
• The Pirate Wrecker and the Death Ship
• The Spectre Ship of Porthcuno
• The Lady with the Lantern
• The Drowned Hailing their Names
• The Voice from the Sea
• The Smuggler's Token
• The Hooper of Sennen Cove
• How to Eat Pilchards
• Pilchards Crying for More
• The Pressing-Stones
• Whipping the Hake
• The Death Token of the Vingoes
• The Death Fetch of William Rufus
• Sir John Arundell
• Phantoms of the Dying
• The White Hare
• The Hand of a Suicide
• The North Side of a Church
• Popular Superstitions
• Sanding the Step on New Year's Day
• May-Day
• Shrove Tuesday at St Ives
• The Furry--Helstone
• Midsummer Superstitious Customs
• Crying the Neck
• Drinking the Apple-Trees on Twelfth-Night Eve
• Allhallows-Eve at St Ives
• The Twelfth Cake
• Oxen Pray on Christmas-Eve
• St George--The Christmas Plays
• Geese-Dancing--Plough Monday
• Christmas at St Ives
• Lady Lovell's Courtship
• The Game of Hurling
• The Mayor of Mylor
• The Mayor of St Germans
• The Mayor of Halgaver Moor
• The Faction Fight at Cury Great Tree
• Towednack Cuckoo Feast
• The Duke of Restormel

English Fairy and Other Folk Tales by Edwin Sidney Hartland, Illustrated by C.E. Brock 1890

• Jack the Giant Killer
• The Princess of Canterbury
• The Princess of Colchester
• Mr Fox
• Tom Tit Tot
• Jack and the Bean-stalk
• The Story of Sain Kenelm
• Wild Edric
• Lady Godiva
• The Legend of the Sons of the Conqueror
• The Lgend of Becket's Parents
• The Fause Fable of the Lord Lathom
• Whittington and his Cat
• The Pedlar of Swaffham
• The Lampton Worm
• Bomere Pool
• The Origin of the Wrekin
• The Blinded Giant
• Worcestershire Fairies
• The Fairy Midwife
• The Adventure of Cherry of Zennor
• The Fairy Funeral
• The Piskies in the Cellar
• Edwin and Sir Topaz
• The Two Serving Damsels
• The Tulip Bed
• The Fisherman and the Piskies
• A Fairy Caught
• Colman Grey
• The King of the Cats
• A Myth of Midridge
• The Green Children
• The Fairy Banquet
• The Fairy Horn
• The Fairy Fair
• The Fairies' Caldron
• The Cauld Lad of Hilton
• The Fairy Thieves
• The Boggart
• Ainsel
• Legend of the Rollright Stones
• Dando and His Dogs
• The Demon Tregeagle
• The Pason and Clerk
• Outwitting the Bogie
• The Hunted Hare
• The Well of St. Ludgvan
• The Hedley Kow
• The Lord of Pengerswick
• The Witch and the Toad
• Witch and Hare
• The Hand of Glory
• Betty Chidley The Witch
• The Bag of Flour
• Kentsham Bell
• A Bishop's Ghost
• A Clergyman's Ghost
• The Haunted House
• Ghost-Laying Stories
• The Roaring Bull of Bagbury
• The White Lady of Blenkinsopp
• The Haunted Widower
• The Ghost of Rosewarne
• The Lady with the Lantern
• Spectre-Dogs
• Billy B -'s Adventure
• The Wise Fools of Gotham
• The Three Wishes
• The Miller at the Professor's Examination
• Stupid's Mistaken Cries
• The Three Sillies
• Mr Vinegar
• Lazy Jack
• The History of Tom Thumb

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten 1890

• Tom Tit Tot
• The Three Sillies
• The Rose-Tree
• The Old Woman and Her Pig
• How Jack Went to Seek his Fortune
• Mr Vinegar
• Nix Nought Nothing
• Jack Hannaford
• Binnorie
• Mouse and Mouser
• Cap O' Rushes
• Teeny-Tiny
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• The Story of the Three Little Pigs
• The Master and His Pupil
• Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
• Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
• The Story of the Three Bears
• Jack the Giant-Killer
• Henny-Penny
• Childe Rowland
• Molly Whuppie
• The Red Ettin
• The Golden Arm
• The History of Tom Thumb
• Mr Fox
• Lazy Jack
• Johnny-Cake
• Earl Mar's Daughter
• Mr Miacca
• Whittington and His Cat
• The Strange Visitor
• The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh
• The Cat and the Mouse
• The Fish and the Ring
• The Magpie's Nest
• Kate Crackernuts
• The Cauld Lad of Hilton
• The Ass, The Table and the Stick
• Fairy Ointment
• The Well of the World's End
• Master of all Masters
• The Three Heads of the Well

More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, Illustrated by John D. Batten 1894

• The Pied Piper
• Hereafterthis
• The Golden Ball