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Ghost Wrestlers of Kenidjack (1865)

  • back fall Carn Kenidjack Cornish drolls Cornish folklore Cornish mining folklore demon fights Devon and Cornwall wrestling fair play folk wrestling Hooting Cairn intangible cultural heritage John Thomas Blight Margaret Ann Courtney megalithic Cornwall mining community belief nineteenth-century Cornwall oral tradition Penwith Popular Romances of the West of England Robert Hunt St Just-in-Penwith supernatural legend the Gump Tregeseal wrestling heritage
  • Date: June 18, 1865
  • Type: Legend
  • Collection: Devonshire Wrestling Society
  • Tags: back fall Carn Kenidjack Cornish drolls Cornish folklore Cornish mining folklore demon fights Devon and Cornwall wrestling fair play folk wrestling Hooting Cairn intangible cultural heritage John Thomas Blight Margaret Ann Courtney megalithic Cornwall mining community belief nineteenth-century Cornwall oral tradition Penwith Popular Romances of the West of England Robert Hunt St Just-in-Penwith supernatural legend the Gump Tregeseal wrestling heritage

“The wrestlers of Kenidjack” is a Cornish supernatural legend set at Carn Kenidjack, a granite tor on the moorland between St Just and the Tregeseal valley in West Penwith. The tale describes two miners who, returning home one night, witness a wrestling match near the carn presided over by the Devil; when one of the […]

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