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Bullhorns (snails) inside the mines were propitiated with a bit of tallow taken from the miner's candle.
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Children were warned to speak up clearly when seeing a miner on the way to work lest this light incivility send the man to work with a poor heart thinking of the dreaded ill wisher.
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The old alluvial tin streamers had many taboos about using the names of animals and birds which they might meet with in the mines; and so referred to the owl as the braced farcer, the fox as the long tail, the cat as a rooker, and the rat as a peep.
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The appearance of a black dog and the white hare at Wheal Vor mine near Breage was always said to presage some fatal disaster.
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