Cornwall has many legends/myths/folktales that I am enjoying reading and maybe adding to my repertoire. One of the tales I am having fun with is St. Agnes and the Giant. Bolster day in Cornwall celebrates this story where the Giant Bolster (apparently Cornwall has a Giant problem) has been eating children and other random people and sheep! Several Knights challenge Bolster to combat but he defeats them and then finally Agnes tells him she will become his wife if he does one tiny little favor. He is to fill a hole with his blood to prove his worthiness.
Bolster thinks, "No problem..I am after all a Giant."
So he lays down by the hole and slices open his arm. What he doesn't know is that St. Agnes has chosen a hole on the cliff that opens up into the sea..so eventually Bolster closes his eyes never to wake again.
I have been talking about this story to family and friends and without an exception they all feel bad for the Giant!
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