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Trencrom Hill

Hillfort

Folklore

A local newspaper, in 1883 (Cornishman), gives the following:-
"Superstitions die hard. -- A horse died the other day on a farm in the neighbourhood of St. Ives. Its carcase was dragged on a Sunday away up to the granite rock basins and weather-worn bosses of Trecroben hill, and there burnt, in order to drive away the evil spell, or ill-wishing, which afflicted the farm where the animal belonged."
On p195 of
Cornish Folk-Lore. Part III. [Continued]
M. A. Courtney
The Folk-Lore Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3. (1887), pp. 177-220.

A lot of effort - so a deliberate effort to take it to a particular place? Or is it just that burning horses are very stinky.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
3rd April 2007ce
Edited 3rd April 2007ce

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