Walter W. Skeat

Frederick Thomas Elworthy

Specimens of English Dialects

I Devonshire. An Exmoor Scolding and Courtship, ed. by F. T. Elworthy, Esqu. II. Westmooreland. A bran new wark, ed. by the Walter W. Skeat

Walter William Skeat

I. Devonshire. An Exmoor Scolding and Courtship

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Totems, Portents and Tree-Worship

A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and Phrases Used in the West of Somerset and East Devon

“The” West Somerset Word-book

Illustrated by Examples of the Common Phrases and Modes of Speech Now in Use Among the People

An Outline of the Grammar of the Dialect of West Somerset

A Paper Read Before the Philological Society, January 15th, 1875

The Dialect of West Somerset

(two Dialogues of the Beginning of the XVIII. Century) : Also The Somersetshire Man's Complaint (a Poem of a Full Century Earlier) ; the Original Texts Edited, Collated, and Arranged, with a Complete Transcript in Glossic, the Vocabulary Enlarged, and the Whole Illustrated with Copious Notes

The Exmoor Scolding and Courtship

Classic text describes many afflictions said to result from being "stared at" — as observed from the days of the ancient Egyptians up to the late 19th century. Descriptions of gestures, charms, incantations, and other protective acts used to ward off power of the "evil eye." 199 illustrations.

Frederick Thomas Elworthy

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