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St Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall
£50.00 – £500.00
St. Nectan’s Glen, near the mysterious Arthurian Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, sometimes said to be one of Britain’s “most spiritual sites”. In the sixth century AD Saint Nectan had a Hermitage above the waterfall and rang a silver bell to warn ships of the dangers of offshore rocks.
He believed that the marauding Romans were ravaging his faith, so before he died he vowed that unbelievers would never hear the bell and he threw it into the basin of the waterfall.
If the bell is heard today, bad luck will follow. Ghostly monks have been witnessed chanting along the pilgrim path as well as two spectral grey women, said to be St Nectan’s sisters who are buried beneath a large flat slab in the river, near the bottom of the waterfall. St Nectan himself is said to be buried in an oak chest somewhere below the river.
June 17th is now the feast day of St Nectan.
Inspiration
St Nectan’s Glen
A Dorset ‘Glen’, well, who’d have thought?
And full of Legend’s mist
Kind Arthur and his Knights nearby
Here Guinevere was kissed!
The gushing water falls like time
A fast and foaming swell
Yet like spaghetti -strands of life
Such stories they can tell!
St. Nectan lived and died right here
A Hermit to the last
His silver bell rang out to warn
The Sailors sailing past.
Yet when the Romans came to fight
And conquer English folk
St Nectan threw the Bell away
A cursing, damning ‘saintly’ bloke!
St. Nectan’s Head still gushes blood
In shades of Autumn leaves
As teardrops, sunlight mingled, fall
Such stories one believes!
It is a Hemit’s place for sure,
For solitary reflection.
As loud as water pounds the rocks
It whispers introspection.
Last Staza replace with
What good to do? What good to think?
What mysteries are real?
And when you see the water fall
What do you really feel?
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