Little Comberton Devil
Legend has it that the Devil once visited this village. A man
called upon a farmer to ask for work, and went on to work so fast
and hard at his tasks that the farmer could not keep up. The farmer
decided to test the man by asking him to count the corns in a heap
of waste from the threshing, the man duly reported how many
thousands of corn there were. It was therefore decided by all that
he must be the Devil. The farmer was told by a gypsy that the only
way he could get rid of the Devil was to give him a task he could
never perform. The farmer cut a curly hair from his wife's head and
told the Devil to take it to the blacksmith and straighten it out,
the gypsy was right, the Devil could not perform the task and never
returned to the village
