#cornish folklore

Witch and Troll by John Bauer (1909)

“It was believed that when an incantation had been pronounced in the proper way at Newlyn Tolcarne, that the Troll who inhabited it could embody the person who called him up in any state in which the person had existed during a former age. You had only to name the age or period, and you could live your past life therein over again.”

-W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911)