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#1322 W.H.K. Wright (ed) - The Western Antiquary; or, Devon and Cornwall Note-Book: Vol VIII, July, 1888, to June, 1889. W.H. Luke, Plymouth, 1888, 1st edition.
#WHKWright #WesternAntiquary #SabineBaringGould #Cornwall #Devon #Archaeology #History #Genealogy #Folklore #BookOfTheDay
#TIL the curate who wrote the #Hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" also wrote "The Book of the Were-Wolves"
AND the "training up" of his lower class teenage fiancée into suitable curate marriage material was probably part of the inspiration for #GeorgeBernardShaw 's " #Pygmalion" (they were friends in later life)
AND he taught classes with a pet bat on his shoulder
AND he's the ancestor of comedian #JoshWiddicombe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Baring-Gould
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-were-wolves/
#305 Kelvin I. Jones and S. Baring-Gould - The Beehive Hut: A Cornish Mystery. Oakmagic Publications, Penzance, 1999, 1st edition. #KelvinIJones #SabineBaringGould #BeehiveHuts #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #OakmagicPublications #BookOfTheDay
I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...
Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more
#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology