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There lies in the bed of a pool at St. Mawgan-in-Meneage 

 a huge pebhle, with a mark on it like an eagle's claws, which 

 had been thrown by a giant against a rock, and so originated the 

 Venton Ganel spring. The giant was also said to have flung it 

 from the church tower. 



Death Portents. — (1.) A youth of sixteen returned home one 

 day in alarm, saying that he had seen something white, like a 

 lamb, the sight of which had very greatly terrified him. The 

 next day he was killed at the mine. (2.) A man went on a 



journey from P , leaving his father alive. As he was 



drawing near the little meeting-house at St. , he saw therein 



a light, and a large horse which dwindled to the size of a 

 pony, and then vanished. When he passed the meeting-house, 

 all trace of a light had disappeared, and on reaching home, he 

 found his father had died during his absence. (3.) See page 73. 



Wreck portents. — (1). A man, living near the seaside, heard 

 the sound of voices, which he considered to arise from his 

 sisters arguing. When he entered the house to inquire what 

 was the matter, he was met by the question " What was you 

 and father arguing about ?" Convinced by this, and the strange 

 tone of the voices that there was something supernatural about 

 them, he prophesied that a wreck would shortly happen. When 

 he went to the cove next morning he found that a wreck had 

 really occurred, and that there were about seventeen or eighteen 

 men clinging to the rocks, and conversing in the same strange 

 tongue, which he had heard the night before. Out of the num- 

 ber who reached the rocks, only one was ultimately saved alive, 

 the rest refused to leave the rock, and everyone of them perished, 



(2) Off the fishing cove at , there appeared for several 



nights a strange light, like that of a fire burning on the sea. 

 The appearance was only visible from the shore. When a boat 

 approached it, it would row right through the place where the 

 fire had seemed to be, and yet there was nothing. Not long 

 after, a ship laden with grain, and curiosities such as stuffed 

 serpents, was wrecked in this very cove. 



A Mystery. — At , in the parish of , there is an old 



house about two hundred years of age. It has been much 

 modernised, but, standing with a few forlorn trees about it, it 



