Scilly and its Legends

by Henry John WHITFIELD (1808 - 1855)

A Cruise Round the Western Isles

Scilly and its Legends

A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief diversions into period racism. -Summary by Timothy Ferguson


Listen next episodes of Scilly and its Legends:
Appendix , Popular Superstitions , St Agnes , The Legend of St Warna