Golden Horseshoe Geoart #44-Legend of St Dunstan Mystery Cache

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The following are excerpts from "The Horse Shoe: The True Legend of Saint Dunstan and the Devil, Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to be a Charm Against Witchcraft" by Edward G Flight, written in 1871 (or 1851?)

In days of yore, when saints were plenty
(For each one now, you’d then find twenty,)
In Glaston’s fruitful vale
Saint Dunstan had his dwelling snug
Warm as that inmate of a rug
Named in no polished tale....N43

The holy man, when not employed
At prayers or meals, to work enjoyed
With anvil, forge, and sledge
These he provided in his cell
With saintly furniture as well;
So chroniclers allege...37...

(I skipped many many versus telling of how St Dunstan was playing his harp and the devil heard, came over and disrupted his music. And so St. Dunstan thought of retaliation.....)...6...

Satan, of this without forewarning
Worse luck for him! the following morning
With simper sauntered in;
Squinted at what the saint was doing
But never smoked the mischief brewing
Putting his foot in’t; soon the shoeing
Did holy smith begin...3...

Oh! ’twas worth coin to see him seize
That ugly leg, and ‘twixt his knees
Firmly the pastern grasp
The shoe he tried on, burning hot
His tools all handy he had got
Hammer, and nails, and rasp...3...

A startled stare the devil lent
Much wondering what St. Dunstan meant
This preluding to follow
But the first nail from hammer’s stroke
Full soon Nick’s silent wonder broke
For his shrill scream might then have woke
The sleepiest of Sleepy Hollow...w80...

And distant Echo heard the sound
Vexing the hills for leagues around
But answer would not render
She may not thus her lips profane:
So Shadow, fearful of a stain
Avoids the black offender...06...

The saint no pity had on Nick
But drove long nails right through the quick;
Louder shrieked he, and faster
Dunstan cared not; his bitter grin
Without mistake, showed Father Sin
He had found a ruthless master...4...

And having driven, clenched, and filed
The saint reviewed his work, and smiled
With cruel satisfaction;
And jeering said, “Pray, ere you go
Dance me the pas seul named ‘Jim Crow,’
With your most graceful action.”...7...

And yet, though seemed this sharp correction
Stereotyped in Satan’s recollection
As in his smarting hocks;
Not until he the following deed
Had signed and sealed, St. Dunstan freed
The vagabond from stocks...6...

"To all good folk in Christendom to whom this instrument shall come the Devil sendeth greeting: Know ye that for himself and heirs said Devil covenants and declares, that never at morn or evening prayers at chapel church or meeting, never where concords of sweet sound sacred or social flow around or harmony is woo’d, nor where the Horse-Shoe meets his sight on land or sea by day or night on lowly sill or lofty pinnacle on bowsprit helm mast boom or binnacle, said Devil will intrude."

The horse-shoe now saves keel, and roof
From visits of this rover’s hoof
The emblem seen preventing
He recks the bond, but more the pain
The nails went so against the grain
The rasp was so tormenting


This geoart is placed to coincide with the GHAGAFAP 17 event. Please see GC7VH9A for more details on the series.

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