1894 Brewer’s / W / Wayland Smith’s Cave
A cromlech near Lambourn, Berkshire. Scott, in his Kenilworth (chap. xiii.), says, “Here lived a supernatural smith, who would shoe a traveller’s horse for a ‘consideration.ʹ His fee was sixpence, and if more was offered him he was offended.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.