NUMMITS AND CRUMMITS,DEVONSHIRE CUSTOMS,CHARACTERISTICS,AND FOLK-LORE
Sarah Hewett
This little book is made up of a few crumbs from the repositories of many Devonshire friends, to whom grateful thanks are tendered for their untiring helpfulness in supplying so much that is quaint and interesting.The miscellaneous scraps here gathered shew but inadequately the humorous characteristics
of our Devonshire folk, their dialect, and as some like to call it, “jargon,” as drawn by themselves. They illustrate what the people actually believe in, say, and do, and shew the general trend of their minds. Their belief in the supernatural is unbounded. Neither age, social position, nor culture makes much difference: one and all are more or less wedded to the superstitions, beliefs, and traditions of their ancestors.