"The Witch's Pool" Traditional Cache
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Nice walk in quiet country lanes to this cache. Less than half a mile to the cache from the suggested parking but you can drive-by it (be warned narrow lanes).
The cache is at a pool witch has a story about it, read On On. Take care with children near the pool. (Ref point) is the lane to the cache off the main road.
On the way to the cache (if you're walking), you might meet the Llamas Marzi and I met setting the cache 
. They were on the left going down the first lane.
The Llama song.
Also nice views out over the countryside. Hope your not superstitious, read on.
Hidden in the crook of a long and winding lane secreted in the folds of Flint Mountain stands Pwll-yr-Wrach, "The Witch's Pool".
Clear, still and peaceful on a summer's day, this pool has a sinister reputation 
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According to legend, strange beings live beneath its waters 
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One early winter's morning in 1852, a farm labourer is said to have suffered a fatal encounter with one of these beings.
John Roberts had just stepped out of his cottage door to begin his day's work when he found his path blocked by an unfamiliar youth. He spoke to the boy but, on receiving no response, he tried to brush past him. The youth grabbed Roberts and in an instant the terrified man found himself hurtling through the air.
In just a few seconds they reached the shore of Pwll-yr-Wrach and his unearthly captor forced Roberts's face to a few inches above the surface of the water and held him there in an iron grip.
Struggling, Roberts heard a cock crow from a nearby farm and suddenly found himself released. The boy stood above him, eyeing him passively.
"When the cuckoo sings its first note on Flint Mountain I shall come again to fetch you," said the boy, and then he vanished.
John Roberts died the following May. He had been carrying out some building repairs at Penyglyn on the Mountain when a wall fell and crushed him. A young woman who had witnessed the accident said that it happened just as she noted a cuckoo come to rest on a nearby tree.
She added that when the body was being carried away to Roberts's home, the cuckoo had followed, singing from tree to tree all the way to his front door...
Spooky !!!
Congratulations to The West Viewers and Horrid Henry for first to find this Geocache on the 30/11/07.
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Va gur onfr bs gur boivbhf
