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 Dolly Pentreath 1692-1777. Was born in Cornwall, England.
Never married but had
a son. She was accredited with the knowledge of astrology and possessed magical
powers which people would come and use her for.
She was able to use her powers
for good and bad. Dolly Pentreath, the fish-wife of Mousehole, had an
unenviable reputation. She belonged to the adjoining parish of Paul,
and so there is no statue to her in Mousehole Market-Place. Here she
sold fish, smoked her pipe, and drank her flagon of beer with the
best, and talked the old Cornish with a real twenty-two carat stamp
upon it.
This was the real old lingo: hot, sweet and strong, so that those
who heard her never forgot. Dolly lived to one hundred and two, and
then departed, carrying with her, in her queer old brain, the
completest vocabulary of the Cornish language on Earth.
This is her legend, to which it may be added that she had the
reputation of being a witch. Even now there exists an ancient corner
of the village where Dolly would be at home again if she could come
back.
Anne Boleyn,
Joan of Arc,
Joan Wytte,
Florence Newton,
Elisabeth Sawyer,
Mother Shipton,
Mary Butters,
Isobel Goldie
Dolly Pentreath,
Caroline of Brunswick,
Dorothy Clutterbuck,
Margaret Jones,
Marie Laveau,
Witch of Endor
Bridget Bishop
Burning Times,
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