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The Hurlers

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Folklore

The sarcastic Davis Gilbert said "With respect to the stones called the 'Hurlers' being once men, I will say.. 'Did that the ball which these Hurlers used when flesh and blood appear directly over them, immovably pendant in the air, one might he apt to credit some little of the tale..'

Hunt, who was quoting him in his 'Popular Romances of the West of England' retorted
May we not address Mr Bond, "O ye of little faith!"- A very small amount of which would have found the ball, fixed as a boulder of granite, not as it passed through the air, but as it rolled along the ground.



* 'Popular Romances' online at the sacred texts archive: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe071.htm
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
12th May 2005ce
Edited 13th May 2005ce

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