About this Event
Did you hear about the Redruth girl who vomitted snails? Or how the saint of Gunwalloe saved his sister's eye from a goose? Can you cure warts with a slug, or whooping cough with spiders?
Sea serpents and bear-dogs, giant birds and bigfoots, devil-fish and sea ghosts - these are the beasts that haunt the landscape of Cornwall. This book of bizarre beasts contains faunal favourites like the red-eyed Owlmanof Mawnan Smith and the Beast of Bodmin Moor as well as Camborne's Frog King and Ladock's feathered fiend, plagues of flies and octopuses. You'll find beavers and boars, rhymes for curing adder bites and the reason we feed pasties to snails.
Luke Thompson will be talking about his extraordinary compendium of Cornwall's most curious creatures. Don't miss it!
Event venue & nearby stays
Waterstones, 11 Boscawen Street, Truro, United Kingdom
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