NEW DARK ART: King Pippin's Mount.

 

This is the top of our local hill - St Stephen's Beacon, on which stands this wild and lonely fairy tree with a small clear pool of water nestled underneath it. The hill used to be called King Pippin's Mount because it is said that this is where King Pippin was buried within an ancient barrow. The Barrow is now gone, most of the stone removed by miners in the 19th century to build an engine house, so nothing much remains except a name and some scattered stones. Was there a Pippin, was he a Cornish king? Did he do good, did he do bad? A good lost story for Fairy Tale Tuesday.