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Talking with the rector of the neighbouring parish of Phillack one day on this subject, he said, "Don't imagine that the daws restrict themselves to the chimneys where fires are not lighted. At all events it isn't so at Phillack.
A good road runs from Hayle to Gwythian, skirting the Phillack towans, and then passes onward to Portreath. For the most part it keeps near the sea, so that the cyclist need not feel he is losing everything worth seeing; but the pedestrian, if he does not mind a few rough places, will do better still by taking the cliff path.
Yet the cliff-breeders, albeit abundant enough, are but a minority of the daw population of this district. The majority of these birds live and breed in the neighbouring villages and hamlets St. Ives, Carbis Bay, Towadneck, Lelant, Phillack, Hayle, and others further away.
His exorcising formula is said to have commenced with the words "in Nommy Dommy," and we are told it was in Latin throughout as we may believe from this specimen. But the days of the exorcist are over now there are no ghosts to lay, or only such as will not be laid. There is a ferry at Lelant, taking the traveller across the Hayle creek to sandy Phillack, one of the mother-parishes of Hayle.