Bowermans Nose Dartmoor National Park Devon South West England UK GPLM 1140
Bowerman's Nose is a large stack of weathered granite on Dartmoor, in the United Kingdom. It is situated on the northern slopes of Hayne Down, about a mile from Hound Tor and close to the village of Manaton at grid reference SX742805. According to local legend, a huntsman called Bowerman lived on the moor around one thousand years ago. When chasing a hare he and his pack of dogs unwittingly ran into a coven of witches, overturned their cauldron and disrupted their ceremony. This article is about the hunting of prey by human society. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Witchcraft. ... Three-legged iron pots being used to cater for a school-leavers party in Botswana. They decided to punish him, and the next time he was hunting, one of the witches turned herself into a hare, and led both Bowerman and his hounds into a mire. As a final punishment, she turned them to stone - the dogs can be seen as a jagged chain of rocks on top of Hound Tor, while the huntsman himself became the rock formation now known as Bowerman's Nose. With a little imagination, it is possible to see a human face in the rocky outline. The less commonly known part of this legend is that at night,it is possible to hear the screams of pain as he was turned to stone by the witches. Image:DianaHound. ... Hound Tor is one of the more impressive tors on Dartmoor, United Kingdom - a good example of a heavily weathered granite outcrop. ...
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