Excerpt from The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North CornwallWhoever the Cornish fairies are, and whatever their origin, they are not without their interest from the folklore point of View, and we hope that these stories about them will be pleasing, not only to Cornish people themselves, but to those who come to visit the land outside England.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.