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Maps of Cornwall :
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Scale 1 : 25 000
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Those covering Cornwall:
Map of Isles of Scilly:
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Ghost hunting
Much has been written about ghostly hauntings in Cornwall. From The Lands
End to the northernmost tip of Cornwall, many Cornish towns and villages
have their own particular ghost story which will thrill and enthrall you.
Roche Rock, Roche
Haunted houses; ghost ships and their lost treasure; ancient smugglers;
and shadowy lantern carrying figures are just a few of the stories to
be told.
On the Land's End peninsula, a short distance from the A
3071 St Just
to Penzance road just after its junction with the B 3318 is Carn
Kenidjack, the Hooting Cairn. The strangely shaped rock outcrop is
visible from the road and a public footpath leads towards it.
It is said that ''the spirits of the Celts, possibly the spirits of yet
older people, dwell amidst those rocks ..... The dead hold undisputed
possession of all around; no ploughshare has dared to invade this
sacred spot, and every effort made by modern man to mark his sway is
indicated by its ruin".
Carn Kenidjack
Such is the reputation of Carn Kenidjack that people passing near it
would rush past it as quickly as possible in quiet sombre mood. Two
miners passed by this spot one dark night and though the night was not
a windy one, they heard a moaning noise coming from the Carn which
arose into a hoot.
They believed they could see lights coming from the cairn and huge dark
figures between the rocks. Then suddenly a horseman rode up behind
them wearing a black gown and hood, his face partly covered. In fear
that he may not see them and drive over them, they called to him and
asked where he was going. The mysterious stranger told them he was
going to watch the 'wrastling' (wrestling) at he Carn and he invited
them to join him.
The men followed drawn by a strange compulsion. On arriving at the
Carn they encountered a number of strange figures gathering, who seemed
to grow out of the very rocks themselves, men of a huge size with
fierce painted faces. Two figures came forward and entered the circle
which was to be the wrestling area. To their great consternation of the
miners, the mysterious horseman was the devil himself and the wrestlers
nothing short of demons.
Carn Kenidjack
As the match progressed the miners were treated to the best wrestling
match they had ever seen. Finally, one of the protagonists threw the
other hard onto the ground, slamming him down on his back. The devil
sat quietly watching the defeated wrestler lie dying and his demon
spectators clammered around the victor, hooting and shouting.
The Cornishmen, believing in fair play, were aggrieved by the
abandoning of the defeated competitor and moved forward to comfort him
as he lay dying, whispering in his ear the solace of a Christian
prayer. With the uttering of the prayer, the rocks shook as if struck
by a thunderbolt and the night became as black as pitch with a strange
rushing sound heard as the devil and all the demons both spectators and
wrestlers disappeared. The terrified miners clung to each other in
fear, not able to find their way and passed the night praying that they
would survive until the daylight.
A tale is told in
St Agnes of Dorcas, a suicide victim, who died by
throwing herself into the shaft of Polbreen Mine. The spirit of
Dorcas would call to the miners by name and distract them from their
work as they answered her persistent calls. While for much of the
time this caused a nuisance to the miners, it was not always so and on
one occasion Dorcas called a miner away from an area where he was
working shortly before a rock fall ensued which would have crushed him
to death.
In Polperro the ghost of Willy Willcocks is said to haunt a cave in
Chapel Cliff. The fisherman lost his way in the cave and is still
unable to find his way out, his ghost still wandering the tunnels of
Willy Willcocks Hole.
For more information:
Books:
Books can be purchased online by clicking on the links below :
Ghosts of Cornwall Peter Underwood 1983 Bossiney Books ISBN 0906456738
Cornish Ghosts Di Francis 1977 James Pike Ltd ISBN 0859321916
Ghost Hunting Tour of West Cornwall ISBN 0953827402; 42 pages
The Popular Mythology of Cornwall: Giants and Ghosts: Vol 3
Haunted Cornwall (Images of England S.)
Dvds:
Dvds can be purchased online by clicking on the links below :
Cornwall Ghosts
For other items of ghostly interest in Cornwall please click on the following link:
Ghosts in Cornwall
See also our A-Z of Cornwall for the location of some of Cornwall's
most famous ghostly sites, towns and villages around Cornwall with their
own Ghost Stories and Tales of Haunting.
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Map of Ghost Hunting locations in Cornwall
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Ghost Hunting locations in Cornwall
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