Would You Believe It! You’ll never believe some of the fabulous stories we could tell you about the Peak. This lump of stone may have had an earlier life, and that rock once contained a live animal. There was the goose which flew to hell and back and the duck which was transformed into a block of wood, not to mention a cat with wings, and our own Loch Ness monster. It is not just our birds and beasts which are a bit odd. The people in one village got their nickname from a little local difficulty involving a cow, a gate and a saw. We have had skeleton thieves, body snatchers and a beggar king who served up a cannibal feast to the devil. Other village tales tell of a woman who was swallowed up into the ground and a young woman who became a very thin tourist attraction. Not all of our stories need to be taken with a pinch of salt, especially the one about the salted corpse. Certain love spells, on the other hand, are not guaranteed to work. More Pictures Would You Believe It!