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CORNWALL LAND OF LEGENDS
"The place is pre-eminently the region of dream and mystery" wrote the great Victorian novelist and poet Thomas Hardy in 1870,describing his first experience of Cornwall. Even today this mystical land continues to exert a strange influence over those who come to visit its secret and sacred places,to marvel at the breathtakingly beautiful coastline or simply to bask on its sun-drenched beaches.You are never more than 20 miles from the sea in Cornwall-and never more than a short walk from antiquity.
Ancient and modern, past and present, Cornwall remains truly a Land of Legends. Long may it be so.
The Legend of St. Michael's Mount
Mount's Bay, Cornwall
Both the Giant's Cormoran, who built and dwelt in the Mount, and a neighbouring giant named Trecrobben, were cobblers at need, but they only had one hammer between them. When one wanted it he would bawl "Borrer thammer," and the thing would hurtle through the air from the opposite hill. One day, Cormoran was calling for it, his unsuspecting and rather short-sighted spouse came to the doorway to announce dinner, and she it was who received the hammer! Terrible was the Giant's grief as he rolled her body into the sea, for she was the last of the Giantesses, and - the pasties she baked were proper beauties!
"To thee the fairy state
I with discretion dedicate;
Because thou prizest things that are Curious and unfamiliar."
Oberon's Feast .-- Robert Herrick.
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THE ELFIN CREED OF CORNWALL.
Elves, urchins, goblins all, and little fairyes."--Mad Franke,.
"I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moone's sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green."
--SHAKESPEARE.
"By the moon we sport and play; With the night begins our day;
As we dance the dew doth fall-- Trip it little urchins all;
Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three by three,
And about go we, and about go we." --LYLIE, Maydes' Metamorphoses.
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THE LEGEND OF ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT
by Keith EnglishThere are two main streams of energy that can be detected by dowsers and mystics (and scientific instrumentation that can measure electromagnetic fields) that run throughout Britain. These are called the Michael line and Mary line. St. Michael's Mount is known to tbe the place where these leylines (or dragon lines as the ancients called them) met and is said to be very powerful. St. George, the patron saint of England, was said to be another manifestation of the arch angel Michael, according to the legend, the arch angel Michael guards this sacred place as it has the potential to be misused by even the holy men. Druids where just people, after all and both the forces of good and evil were purported to be able to access these energies for their own ends. All of the "St. George slaying the dragon" stories, have a basis in this belief, hence a myth is born!
by Jodieanne.
