St Dunstan And The Devil
Apr. 14th, 2025 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Yesterday's post was going to be all about the Mayfield Village sign but then as I was prepping the pix I spotted the Spitfire and went off on a whole other tack.
Had I stayed the course I would have posted this close-up of St Dunstan and the Devil.
Dunstan was Archbishop of Canterbury a hundred years before the Norman Conquest and a power in the land. Legends grew up round him. His encounter with the Devil is supposed to have taken place in both Mayfield and Glastonbury. O come on, Glastonbury, you're afloat in myth and legend, let little Mayfield have this one to itself.
Had I stayed the course I would have posted this close-up of St Dunstan and the Devil.
Dunstan was Archbishop of Canterbury a hundred years before the Norman Conquest and a power in the land. Legends grew up round him. His encounter with the Devil is supposed to have taken place in both Mayfield and Glastonbury. O come on, Glastonbury, you're afloat in myth and legend, let little Mayfield have this one to itself.
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Date: 2025-04-14 01:36 pm (UTC)St Dunstan, as the story goes,
Once pull’d the devil by the nose
With red-hot tongs, which made him roar,
That he was heard three miles or more.
Another story relates how Dunstan nailed a horseshoe to the Devil’s hoof when he was asked to re-shoe the Devil’s horse. This caused the Devil great pain, and Dunstan only agreed to remove the shoe and release the Devil after he promised never to enter a place where a horseshoe is over the door. This is claimed as the origin of the lucky horseshoe.
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Date: 2025-04-14 02:38 pm (UTC)