. The North Devon coast. TRENTISHOE CHURCH. an ignorant perversion of Pen an macn : the oldCornu-British for the Hill of the Stone, namely,a rude, post-like monolith, standing somethingover five feet high. The Pen was lost incourse of time and an-maen became bydegrees Hangman, when the legend that nowattaches to the stone was duly invented to account THE HANGMAN HILLS 67 for the name. According to this thoroughlyunveracious story, which old Fuller, who doesnot appear to have disbelieved it, no doubt heardfrom the peasantry, a sheep-stealer was crossingthe hill with a sheep slung over his back,
. The North Devon coast. TRENTISHOE CHURCH. an ignorant perversion of Pen an macn : the oldCornu-British for the Hill of the Stone, namely,a rude, post-like monolith, standing somethingover five feet high. The Pen was lost incourse of time and an-maen became bydegrees Hangman, when the legend that nowattaches to the stone was duly invented to account THE HANGMAN HILLS 67 for the name. According to this thoroughlyunveracious story, which old Fuller, who doesnot appear to have disbelieved it, no doubt heardfrom the peasantry, a sheep-stealer was crossingthe hill with a sheep slung over his back, and satdown here to rest awhile, and, doing so, the sheepin its struggles slipped, and the rope tighteninground the mans neck, he was strangled. Twodifficulties, however, meet us here (supposing, forthe moment, we take this tale seriously)—(i) Howthe sheep-stealer could have sat down to rest ona post over five feet high, and (2) How thisstrangling accident could possibly in any wayhave happened. Probably we may be met
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