Cornish Occult

The Trough of Treassowe in Ludgvan Near Penzance

In small house it was often inconvenient to lose a room to a spirit so many ghosts were laid down under hearthstones or outdoors under large rocks.

At the tenement of Treassowe (pronounced "Trazza") in the parish of Ludgvan, near Penzanze, there was formerly a great stone trough turned upside down just in front of the house.

An inquiry was met with the story that there was spirit underneath laid down by "Passon Stevens." The trough has now been put back into more mundane service.

Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England.)

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