The view of St Agnes from the cliffs that tower above it, & which are dotted with the shafts of disused tin mines. This is a literally haunted landscape: the miners believed warnings of disaster would be given them by ghosts who dwelt in the mines.
But not all were benign...
But not all were benign...
Polbreen Mine, haunted by the ghost of a girl called Dorcas, who threw herself down a mineshaft, & then, as a disembodied voice, tormented miners by calling out to them by name.
“It is states as an incontrovertible fact, that more than one man who has met the spirit in the levels of the mine has had his clothes torn off his back” - Robert Hunt (1865) #Dorcas #StAgnes
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
