Talk:Mevagissey

French monkey hanged as spy
This sounds suspiciously similar to the Hartlepool and Boddam myths. Read both pages and you'll see it's the same even down to the fact that the events occurred during the Napoleonic Wars. Either there were a lot of sailing simians in the French navy back in those days, or this is just bollocks, and I suspect the latter.

I looked through the history of the page and the contributor who added this tale seems like a respectable wikipedian, but it was a fairly long way back in the history of the page, and I think he's maybe just a local who was doing an infodump, trying to get the page started. I don't think the source of the citation (added later, I think) is very good - it's certainly not primary or academic, it's just some Reader's Digest book of myths, and I'm just really dubious of the fact-checking.

As the "BS Historian" writes: "any other monkey-related 'stupid locals' stories are probably recently borrowed transpositions of the Hartlepool story, intended to add local 'colour' for the tourist trade."

I think the whole little paragraph about the monkey should be deleted, but I wrote this because I don't like to act unilaterally. Stroller (talk) 22:01, 1 February 2015 (UTC)