Talk:Wistman's Wood

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[edit] Folklore

Not sure if there's a desire to include something like this, but I'll place it here in case anyone wants it in the future: There is much folklore surrounding Wistman's Wood. This passage comes from the Ruth Manning-Sanders book The River Dart, published in 1951: "The Wish Hounds are truly formidable. They hunt by night, breathing blue flame, and behind them runs the Dark Master with a pole slung at his back for leaping morasses. They are seldom seen, but even to hear them, as they pass baying in their pursuit of the souls of unbaptised children, brings misfortune. Should you be unlucky enough to see them, you must cower in silence until the hunt sweeps by, for to speak a word in the presence of the Dark Master is death." Otto1970 (talk) 05:04, 27 January 2008 (UTC)