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One
night two miners were trudging home from work. They had been working
in the mine in the Cornish village of Morvah.
They
had just been paid and so they stopped off at the inn for a drink
on the way home. It was dark when they set off on the last part
of their journey past the moor.
There
was very little wind that night but as they got closer to the moor
they heard a strange moaning sound coming from one of the rocks.
As
they looked up they could see lights and strange dark figures moving
about.
They
began to walk more quickly and then from out of nowhere appeared
a horse carrying a tall stranger in a black cloak with a hood covering
his face.
The
stranger beckoned the men to follow. As they got closer to the top
of the rocks they saw two strange creatures with long flowing hair,
wild eyes and painted faces.
A
piece of ground had been cleared as if for a wrestling arena. One
of the men lifted the other high in the air and as he did so the
rocks around them shook and the earth beneath them groaned.
The
miners who were very frightened by now fell to their knees and began
to recite the Lords Prayer.
The
effect was immediate; as soon as the prayer had finished the earth
shook as if with an earthquake.
Everything
went black and there was the noise of a great rushing wind. When
the men opened their eyes again everything had disappeared.
The
men stumbled back on their journey home and in the morning they
wondered if the had imagined the whole thing.
However
a week later in the town posters went up to advertise a wrestling
match to be held high up on the rocks on the moor.
The
faces in the poster looked very familiar!!
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