Another story concerns the
village of Wall, in Gwinear, where a field path
emerges through a stile on to the high road.
One day, in the
early part of the nineteenth century, a wagoner of
notoriously evils habits was found at this point
lying dead, having been apparently run over by the
wheels of his own wagon. Shortly after the body had
been removed, a companion of the deceased, whose
route from the mine followed this pathway, turned up
at his home in a very distraught condition.
On being questioned
by his wife, he said that the wagoner had joined him
at the pathway stile and had subsequently walked with
him for a considerable distance. During that time he
had spoken words which the miner refused to repeat.
Their effect on the miner, however, was such that
from that day he began to lose all his strength and,
not long afterwards, died.
This incident was
well remember by the local inhabitants for fifty
years after.
