Strange Survivals

Subtitled Some Chapters in the History of Man, this is Baring-Gould's genial survey of the strange customs, beliefs and objects that survive into modern life from a far older world, from the hearth and the bell to games, rhymes and superstitions.

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By Sabine Baring-Gould. See the Sabine Baring-Gould author page for the full list of his Dartmoor and Devon books.

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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Away to the northward is seen the boggy land in the neighbourhood of Erme Head, with the distant tors peeping over the dark brown ridges.”
William Crossing, The Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor and its Borderland, 1902

Also on Our DartmoorRing cairn west-north-west of Branscombe's Loaf — A ring cairn, a bank 2 m wide around a space 12.5 m across, on the west side of Corn Ridge summit, one of six cairns in a cemetery.

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“Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me thy grey mare, / All along, down along, out along, lee. / For I want for to go to Widdecombe Fair, / Wi' Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, / Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawk, / Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.”

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