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GUERNSEY FOLK-LORE.

[Illustration: SIR EDGAR MACCULLOCH

IN HIS ROBES AS BAILIFF OF GUERNSEY.]




                          GUERNSEY FOLK-LORE

                            A COLLECTION OF

               _POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS, LEGENDARY TALES,
          PECULIAR CUSTOMS, PROVERBS, WEATHER SAYINGS, ETC.,
                    OF THE PEOPLE OF THAT ISLAND_.

                         FROM MSS. BY THE LATE
                SIR EDGAR MACCULLOCH, KNT., F.S.A., &c.
                        _Bailiff of Guernsey_.

                       EDITED BY EDITH F. CAREY.

       _ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF OLD PRINTS, ETC._

                                LONDON:
                ELLIOT STOCK, 62