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News that the latest space probe has discovered a discarded Kendal Mint Cake wrapper on the surface of Mars, and, what appears to be an alien space-craft seen landing on Skiddaw and discharging small people furnished with cameras, confirms completely that Cumbria as well as the Lake District is just about the popular visitor location inside the Universe.
Not merely will be the spectacular scenery and hospitality a tourist attraction, but an extra allure will be the a feeling of mystery, secrecy and possibly some disbelief surrounding lots of the region's venues. Century roughly ago, travelers desperate to cross Lake Windermere between Ferry Nab and Sawrey about the opposite shore used the assistance of a boatman and his awesome small rowing-boat. One particularly stormy night, a voice was heard to require transport from your wooded slopes of Claiffe Heights about the Sawrey side with the water. The boatman duly tripped to get what he assumed was obviously a passenger, but, disappeared en-route. Down the road in the morning, the boatman was discovered laying about the lake shore, incoherent plus deep shock. He died shortly afterwards. Thus was established the legend with the "Crier of Claiffe".
Moving a couple of miles south for the village of Natland, near Kendal, the customer is faced from the sticky problem of unraveling the riddle with the Treacle Mines whose exact site, has, on the centuries, remained a closely guarded secret known and then some of the village elders.
Sadly, researchers cannot enlist aid from the notable, but long dead Scots born wizard, Michael Scott. Scott is credited with casting a spell over a coven of witches and turning them to the stones which now constitute the circle of "Long Meg" near Penrith. Folklore states that when visitors can count the quantity of stones twice, and get through to the same total each and every time, then a spell will probably be broken. However, quote any try to dislodge the stones will invoke a weather storm of cataclysmic power.
The bradenton area is abundant with Arthurian Legend. One account recounts the episode where Arthur and his awesome nephew teamed up to outwit the scheming Grim Baron. Their quest, set from the Baron, to find the actual reply to the issue "precisely what does a female desire" makes entertaining reading. And, what with the mystery with the Giants Grave perfectly located at the churchyard of Penrith's St. Andrews Church?
Leaving Penrith behind and recurring north for the region's capital, Carlisle, look for the "Cursing Stone" waiting in the doorway of your pedestrian underpass not very definately not the standard castle. This 14 plenty of recently sculpted stone bears the 1069 words of your 16thC curse chiseled to the surface. The curse concludes by condemning the marauding Border Reivers with the age to "the deep pit of Hell". Recently, there were demands the stone's removal from your city by some who feel that its presence brings ill-fortune.
Over a lighter note, a holiday to a beautiful but uncompromising stretch of Wastwater may reveal the positioning of the underwater gnome garden. It becomes an area where, after a little imagination, the inspiring setting will transport yourself any journey of your choosing to a whole lot of magic and mystery.
They're but some of the many tales, fanciful or otherwise not, which may have enchanted generations on the centuries. You'll find nothing to match (i think) with a good yarn told more than a drink in the log-fired pub amongst friends, new and old.
