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William Bottrell

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William Bottrell

William Bottrell (1816–1881) was born at Rafta, St Levan in Cornwall on 7 March 1816. He contributed greatly to the preservation of Cornish mythology. Both he and Thomas Quiller Couch contributed folk stories of West Cornwall for Robert Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England, published in 1865.

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Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series

William Bottrell · Joseph Blight

Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series

William Bottrell