Made now into a film, this is  story which has touched most Scottish hearts. The removal of the stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey was front page news within hours of the event occurring on Christmas morning 1950. I was not even born then but have been fascinated by these legendary thieves since many years.
Scotland Yard began a frantic search for the stone, to me even the name Scotland Yard conjured up all these Scottish ! policemen involved in a search for something they must have thought...
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It is said these mines were inhabited by fairy miners called knockers, so known because of their labours in work. They were thought to be remnants of a people who inhabited Cornwall before the Celts, and were neither good enough for heaven or nor bad enough for hell.

The belief in `spirits of the mines ` is a widespread one and in many mines reports of `straunge shapes and spirites ` haunted these place. The fairies only worked rich lodes so if they were seen! Or heard from their knocking a...

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