In the church is to be found carved woodwork, which doubtless once formed part of the rood-loft, representing the legend of Saint Melangell. The protection afforded by the saint to the hare gave such animals the name of Wyn Melangell--St. Monacella's lambs--and the superstition was so fully credited that no person would kill a hare in the parish, while it was also believed that if anyone cried "God and St. Monacella be with thee" after a hunted hare, it would surely escape. The church contains another interesting item in the shape of a large bone, more than four feet long, which has been described as the bone of the patron saint. Southey visited the church, and in an amusing rhyming letter addressed to his daughter, thus refers to it: "'Tis a church in a vale, whereby hangs a tale, how a hare being pressed by the dogs was much distressed, the hunters coming nigh and the dogs in full cry, looked about for someone to defend her, and saw just in time, as it now comes pat in rhyme, a saint of the feminine gender. The saint was buried there, and a figure carved with care, in the churchyard is shown, as being her own; but 'tis used for a whetstone (like a stone at our back door), till the pity is the more (I should say the more's the pity, if it suited with my ditty), it is whetted half away--lack-a-day, lack-a-day! They show a mammoth rib (was there ever such a fib?) as belonging to the saint Melangell. It was no use to wrangle, and tell the simple people that if this had been her bone, she must certainly have grown to be three times as tall as the steeple!" In Lewis's "Topographical Dictionary of Wales" (1843), we are told that on the mountain between Bala and Pennant Melangell was found a large bone named the Giant's Rib, perhaps the bone of some fish, now kept in the church. But where the bone came from it is quite impossible to say. Old superstitions have clung to it, and beyond what tradition furnishes there is practically nothing for our guidance.