A devilish bit of fun.

From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) | Date: September 29, 1998 | Copyright information

IT'S a small, thin hole about fourteen inches long in a blowhole running under an enormous outcrop of rock on the seaward side of the beach. Hold a piece of paper by the opening and it is snatched from your hand.

The Victorians called it the Devil's Letterbox. A century and a half ago, excursionists would write their letters to the Devil over tea in the nearby Hill's Hotel, then walk down to the satanic letterbox at Kynance Cove on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwal l to post them.

It's still a massive experience, particularly as posting your letter involves a clamber over ...

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