Brewer's: 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.' His fee was sixpence, and if more was offered him he was offended.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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