The vale of Lyvennet : $b its picturesque peeps and legendary lore — John Shaqi
The vale of Lyvennet : $b its picturesque peeps and legendary loreBland, John Salkeld
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The vale of Lyvennet : $b its picturesque peeps and legendary lore
Bland, John Salkeld
Cumbria (England) -- Description and travel
Such is the case at Skellaw Quarry.
Here a black man was seen to glide from point to point of the rock,
and then mysteriously disappear, invariably at the same spot. It is
a curious fact that there, a few years ago, some quarrymen came upon
the skeletons of eleven human beings. These had been laid in an open
channel or crevice formed in the rock, and then covered up. One of
these had been highly jewelled, which bespoke considerable importance,
having gold rings and bracelets on his fingers and wrists, and bronze
earrings; the latter had discoloured the bones of the skull. The bones
were carefully taken up, and devoutly interred in Morland churchyard.
We do not know that the divine rites of the church were performed
over them, but "The Black Man" has never more been seen. Along with
the human bodies were also found the bones of the lower jaw and other
parts of a swine, the provisions doubtless of the party who, whether
explorers, merchants or hunters, have been fallen upon and murdered
by some band of marauders; but at what period there is no means of
ascertaining.
Between Reagill and Reagill Grange is a stone called "The Boggle
Steayne;" it is haunted by a black swine, which crosses before the seer
past the stone, and then vanishes in a deep pool of water. The stone
is of immense size, but is half buried in the earth. Upon its upper
surface is a natural mark resembling a footprint. This is said to have
been left by the boggle. Another was formerly seen on the school, and
another on the house between it and the stone; evident traces of some
spirit of evil or perhaps of good, and who, like the Brownie of Bledwock
.... though lang sen geayne
The mark o' his foot's left on mony a steayne.
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