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angles, sometimes even at right angles, when they become 

 widened and assume a flattened serpentine form. 



Erratum. — In the report for 1896, at page 87, line 23, for " dreccia '' 

 read "breccia " ; and at page 88, lines 5, 7, and 10, for " cove'' 

 read " cone." 



C. G. De La Mare, Sec. Geo. Sect. 



REPORT OF THE FOLKLORE SECTION. 



One of the most important communications of the year in 

 the Folklore Section, is a voluminous paper on " The Rock 

 and Place Names of the Guernsey Coasts," kindly compiled 

 by the Eev. E. H. Tourtel, B.D., Rector of Torteval. This 

 list comprises names extending round the entire circuit of the 

 Island, and is divided into sections according to the parishes. 

 The basis of the list is an ancient M.S., to which Mr. Tourtel 

 had access ; then he has added largely to this from various 

 local sources of information, and has besides given English 

 translations of the French names, together with elucidatory 

 notes, historical and traditional, wherever anything throwing 

 light upon the subject was accessible. Many of the names of 

 our outlying Guernsey rocks are very curious, and Mr. 

 Tourtel's painstaking efforts to explain their origin and mean- 

 ing have resulted in a way that is at once interesting and 

 valuable. In previous reports I have referred to these re- 

 searches of Mr. Tourtel's as being in progress ; his delay in 

 handing in the lists being due to a laudable desire on his part 

 to make the whole as complete as possible before doing so. 



Mr. Hocart has also kindly contributed further examples 

 of local proverbs and proverbial expressions ; while Mr. 

 Bougourd's interesting paper on " The Franco-Norman 

 Dialect of Guernsey," also has a certain bearing on the 

 Folklore, as well as on the Folk-speech of those who use it. 



Last autumn I received some interesting communications 

 from Mr. E. P. Le Feuvre, a gentleman of Jersey extraction, 

 residing in London, and connected with some of our Guernsey 

 families. Mr. Le Feuvre very kindly left with me copies of 

 a number of interesting documents which he had transcribed 

 from the Finch-Hatton Collection of Papers in the British 

 Museum, and from other sources. 



He also gave me the details of a remarkable local witch 

 story, which he had found in a curious old M.S. in the library 

 of Dr. Witham, of Gordon Square, London. This MS., 

 which is in two volumes folio, is entitled " Icones Sacrce 



