Resources

OLD CORNISH STORY COLLECTIONS

• Dr Johnathan Couch, 'The History of Polperro' (1871) 1965 Dyllanstow Truran
• W Bottrell, ‘Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall,’ Vol 1 1870 (originally articles contributed to the Cornish Telegraph, Penzance in 1860's and 70's, then reprinted in book form)
• W. Bottrell, 'Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall’ Vol 2 1873
• W Bottrell, 'Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall', Vol 3 1880
• Mrs Anna Elizabeth Bray, A Peep at the Pixies, or Legends of the West (1854)
• Mrs Anna Elizabeth Bray, The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy 1836, 3 Volumes, W Kent and co, London
• Robert Hunt, 'Popular Romances of the West of England', 1865 London Chatto and Windus
• Robert Hunt,  'Cornish Legends', 2010 Tor Mark Publications, booklet of selections of Hunt's tales
• J Halliwell-Phillips, 'Rambles in Western Cornwall by the Footsteps of Giants' 1863
• R S Hawker 'Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall' 1903 J Lane
• J Henry Harris 'Cornish Saints and Sinners', 1906 Bodley Head
• S Baring-Gould 'A Book of Cornwall' 1899 Menthuen
• Barbara Spooner, 'Jan Tregagel, Man and Ghost' 1935
• Enys Tregarthen  'Legends and Tales of  North Cornwall'  1906, London, Wells, Gardners, Darton and colltd.
• E Tregarthen 'The Piskey Purse' 1905
• E Tregarthen ‘House of the Sleeping Winds' 1911 Redman Lt
• E Tregarthen ed E Yates  'Piskey Folk', 1942 John Dayan Hearthside
• Joseph Henry Pearce, 'Cornish Drolls', 1893 LLanerch Publishers
• Mrs Henry Pennell Whitcimbe 'Bygone Days in Devon and Cornwall' 1874 Richard Bentley and Son
• Simon Young ed ' Magicians, Redheads and Small People, the Legends and Folklore of Sennen and Sennen Cove' 2022 Pwca Books.
   

NEW CORNISH STORY COLLECTIONS

• Margaret Balfour 'The Vanishing Mayor of Padstow' 1938
• Shirley Climo 'Piskies, SprIggans and other Magical Beings' 1981  Thomas Crowell, New York
• Sarah L Enys 'Cornsih Drolls' 1931 Mayflower, Plymouth
• Ruth Manning Saunders 'Peter and the Piskies' 1958 OUP
• Anna Chorlton 'Cornish Folk Tales of Place East and North Cornwall' 2019 The History Press
• Anna Chorlton 'Cornish Folk Tales of Place Mid and West Cornwall' 2025 The History Press
• Henry Everett 'Pixie Folk Tales' 2025 The History Press (contains many Cornish tales)
• Eileen Molony 'Giants, Spriggans and Buccaboo' 1980 Kaye and Ward
• Mike O'Connor 'Cornish Folk Tales', 2013 The History Press
• Mike O'Connor 'Cornish Folk Tales for Children'  2018  The History Press
• Mike O'Connor ' Isles of Scilly Folk Tales ' 2020 The History Press
• Mike O'Connor ' Fools and Wise Men' 2022 The History Press   (contains many Cornsh tales)
• Eric Quale and Micheal Foreman, 'The Magic Ointment and other Cornish legends', 1988 Picturemac Macmillan reissued as Cornish Tales in 2012
• Donald R. Rawe ed. 'Traditional Cornish Stories and Rhymes', 1992 Lodenek Press
  Margaret Caine and Alan Gorton 'Footloose in Cornish Folklore', 2005 Cotswold(Quality)Leisure ltd.
   

CORNISH FOLKLORE

• Ronald M James 'The Folklore of Cornwall' 2018 University of Exeter Press
• K Jones , 'Folklore of a Cornish Village', 2004 Oakmagic
  M.A Courtney, 'Folklore - Legends of Cornwall', first pub 1890, reprinted 1989 Cornwall Books
• M A Courtney Cornish  Folklore in the FolkLore Journal Vol 5 1887
• Tony Deane and Tony Shaw Folklore of Cornwall 2003 The History Press
• Lien Gwerin, Journal of Cornish Folklore
• Alex Langstone  'From Granite to Sea, the Folklore of Bodmin Moor' 2018 Troy Books
• Helen E Manley ' The Revival of Folk Tradition' St Germans May Tree Fair ' Millbrook 2019

 CORNISH FOLKLORISTS

• Simon Young 'Her Room Was her World' : Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore.'  Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics volume 11 no 2 2017
• Simon Young 'Enys Tregarthen of Padstow, A Neglected Cornsih Folklorist and Fairyist' 2023 Pwca Books
• Charlotte MacKenzie   'Cornish Legends' 2022 Lulu.com     (Hunt and Bottrell)
• H Lewis  'In the footsteps of Robert Stephen Hawker' 2009 Cornwall Council

CORNISH STORYTELLERS

• Mike O'Connor 'Traditional Storytelling in Cornwall' Kernow Goth Vol 16,2, autumn 2022
• Mike O'Connor 'A Little History of Storytelling in Cornwall' 2025 The History Press
• William Collier 'Tales and Sayings of William Robert Hicks of Bodmin' 1893 William Brendon and Son, Plymouth
• P A S Poole  ' The Life and Progress of Henry Quick of Zennor' 1963 Penzance

 CORNISH GOTHIC

• Lucy Wood 'Diving Belles' 2012 Bloomsbury
  Jodie Matthews 'Meet Me at the Surface' 2024 Fourth Estate
  Sam K Horton 'Gorse' 2024 Solaris
  Sam K Horton 'Ragwort' 2025 Solaris

HISTORY AND CULTURE

• Garry Tregidga ed. 'Memory, Place and Identity ', 2012 Frances Boutle Publisher
   

  PLACES

• 'A Looe Ditty-Box', London and Scarborough 1924
• Wilson MacArthur, 'The River Fowey', 1948 Cassel
• Peter Moor and Martin Lister, 'Liskeard Town and About', 1988 Tamara Publications
• Mike Dunn, 'The Looe Island Story', 2005 Polperro Heritage Press
• Peter Moore and Martin Lister, 'The Good Looe Story', 1997 Peter Moore Publications
• Charles Causley, 'Collected Poems 1951-1975', 1983 Papermac, Macmillan
• Jason Higgs, 'Haunted Bodmin Moor', 2012 The History Press

SAINTS

• William Borlaise. 'The Age of the Saints', 1893 Joseph Pollard
• M. and L. Quiller Couch, 'Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall,' 1894, 1994 Tamara Publications
• G.H Doble, 'The Saints of Cornwall, 1964 The Holywell Press, Oxford

ARTHURIAN

• 'Three Aurthurian Romances - Poems for Medieval France' translated by Ross G. Arthur. 1996 Dent

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• Will Coleman 'Tom and the Giant, Lutey and the Mermaid, Madgy Figgy's Pig', 2005 Brave Tales
• Antonia Barber ‘The Mousehole Cat’
• Charles Causely ‘The Mermaid of Zennor’ 1999 Orchard
• Alan M. Kent 'The Beast of Bodmin Moor ', 2011 evertype
• Mike O'Connor 'The Moon Over Pennycomequick' 2022 Lyngham House
• Mike O'Connor 'Seal Song' 2022 Lyngham House
• Mike O'Connor 'Firecrow' 2023 Lyngham House
• Simon Parker ' Beast '  2014  Scryfa
• Stephen Polglae 'The Last Giants of Cornwall' 2024 Godolphin Cross Community Association
• Jill Paton Walsh 'Thomas and the Tinners' 2001
• D.M. Thomas 'The Devil and the Floral Dance' 1978 Robson Book 2006

 PODCASTS

     The Piskie Trap       https://shows.acast.com/the-piskie-trap       Articles on aspects of folklore from Devon and Cornwall

      The Silver Ball         https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/8643724-the-silver-ball-an-audio-drama 
Audio drama about the Hurlers and Merry Maidens stone circles, written by Anna Chorlton.

     Cornish Folk Tales for Kids  Cornish Tales for Kids | Podcast on Spotify  Mazed podcast of stories told by children for children

MUSIC

• Three Daft Monkeys  'Of Stones and Bones'
• The Changing Room 'Seaton Mermaid'
• Martha Woods - ‘Crowpound’ ‘The Ballad of Tregeagle’ Tregeagle’
• Seth Lakeman
• Brenda Wooton
   

THEATRE
 Kneehigh -‘Tregeagle’ ‘Tristan and Iseult’

Bedlam

Miracle - ‘Duffy and the Devil’ 2024

PuppetCraft - ‘Tristan and Isolde’ ‘The Mousehole Cat’

Scary Little Girls - ‘Duffy and the Devil’ 2024

Cousin Jacks - ‘The Mousehole Cat’

Minack - ‘Gaints’

ANIMATIONS 

• Piski Legends