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If Uther won, the saints would leave
Cornwall. If Saint Tue won, then the giants would convert to Christianity. Uther took his turn first and easily threw a small rock to the top of nearby Stowe's Hill. Tue prayed for assistance, and picking up a huge slab found it was very light. One after the other, they threw their rocks, stacking them up in perfect piles. When the score was twelve stones each, Uther threw a thirteenth stone, but it rolled down the hill. Tue picked up this fallen stone, and as he lifted it, an
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feet, without lateral support of any kind. The fifth and sixth rocks are of immense size and thickness, and overhang fearfully all round the four lower rocks which support them. All are perfectly irregular; the projections of one do not fit into the interstices of another; they are heaped up loosely in their extraordinary top-heavy form on slanting ground, half way down a steep hill.
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who lived at the top of the mountains were not happy about it. The saints had invaded their land and were declaring their wells as sacred. One of the larger giants, Uther, was given the task of ridding their land of the saints. He confronted the frail Saint Tue, who proposed a rock throwing contest.
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appeared to carry it to the top of the pile of rocks. Seeing this, Uther conceded, and most of the giants decided to follow
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244:Rambles beyond railways: or, Notes in Cornwall
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206:Plymouth & Launceston
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140:Daniel Gumb
59:Linkinhorne
51:Bodmin Moor
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936:Categories
840:Demography
735:St Austell
725:Port Navas
600:Wadebridge
553:St Austell
543:Porthleven
493:Launceston
453:Callington
151:References
75:weathering
850:The Duchy
787:Civil War
720:Pont Pill
604:See also:
558:St Blazey
488:Hugh Town
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588:Torpoint
583:Stratton
538:Penzance
513:Marazion
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468:Falmouth
458:Camborne
394:Cornwall
331:Cornwall
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67:Liskeard
47:Cornwall
39:Keuswask
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813:Fishing
808:Economy
803:Culture
783:History
760:Valency
675:Helford
645:De Lank
578:Saltash
568:St Ives
548:Redruth
528:Padstow
523:Newquay
483:Helston
275:Bibcode
63:Minions
35:Cornish
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776:Topics
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710:Ottery
700:Lynher
690:Lerryn
685:Kensey
660:Gannel
635:Carnon
618:Rivers
533:Penryn
518:Newlyn
443:Bodmin
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115:giants
107:legend
101:Legend
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750:Tiddy
745:Tamar
670:Hayle
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640:Cober
630:Camel
625:Allen
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478:Hayle
473:Fowey
120:angel
798:Flag
695:Looe
680:Inny
503:Looe
448:Bude
311:ISBN
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