![]() ![]() ![]() The canons rushed to the beach to find a ship illuminated by lightning flashes. Suddenly a man rushes in to announce that a vessel was drifting on to Abbey Sands. One night a terrible storm raged while Torre Abbey’s white-robed canons were praying. The story is related in the 1850 book ‘Legends of Torquay’ and is repeated in Arthur Charles Ellis’ ‘Historical Survey of Torquay’ in 1930. The folk tale inevitably involves a spectre, a beautiful maiden and a lesson in morality. Such stories were a good way of getting out safety messages.īut there is an older legend, that of the Hermit’s Ghost. For good practical reasons, forested and steep-sided areas are particularly thought of as being haunted or hazardous for the unwary, and by the twentieth century children were being told of murderous and predatory tramps living in Chapel Woods. We don’t know its real name, who built it, when they built it, and what it was for.Īs with many ancient places on the edge of communities, legends arise and over time become more elaborate as they are related by firesides and in taverns. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |