Scilly and its Legends

by Henry John WHITFIELD (1808 - 1855)

St Mary's

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:
A Cruise Round the Western Isles , A Legend of Piper's-Hole , Appendix , Bryher , Legend of Holy Vale , Legend: The Dane's Grave , Legend : The Knight and the Dwarf , Menawavr, and the Eastern Isles , Popular Superstitions , St Agnes , St Martin's , St Mary's No.2 , St Mary's No.3 , The Legend of St Warna , Tollman Head : A Legend of Old Town , Tresco , Tresco No.2 , Tresco No.3