#Flashlore 30

“Burn bones and you will hear groans.”
— A Cornish superstition.

Painting of an elderly fishwife preparing fish in the harbour.

Source: Hawke, Kathleen (1973). Cornish Sayings, Superstitions and Remedies. Truran: Truro.

Image: Reid, Flora Macdonald (1904). A Cornish Fishwife. Available HERE.