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Extreme weather and flood warnings didn't stop fresh flowers appearing on one of Devon's most famous and mysterious graves.

The tributes were placed on the grave of Kitty Jay over the weekend and a photo shows flood water running around the mound.

It is the latest in the mystery of who places the flowers as nobody is ever seen leaving them. Dartmoor folklore says that the flowers are the work of the piskies who out of sympathy tend the grave north west of Hound Tor throughout eternity.

The point is supposedly the last resting place of Kitty, a suicide victim who is thought to have died in the late 18th century.

It has become a well-known landmark on Dartmoor, and is the subject of local folklore, and several ghost stories.

The small burial mound is at the side of a minor road, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north west of Hound Tor, at the entrance to a green lane that leads to Natsworthy.

Back in the late eighteenth century, an orphaned baby was taken into the Poor House at Newton Abbot. The little girl was named, as was the custom, with a surname beginning with whatever letter the Poor House had progressed to, in this case ‘J’.

As many of the commoner names had been taken the baby girl ended up with Jay. In those days the word Jay was also a slang term for a prostitute so the Christian name of Mary was added.

In her teens she was sent to Canna farm which was located outside Manaton. which is where it is believed she became known as Kitty.

Not long after she had been at the farm she started to receive the attentions of the farmer’s son and she fell pregnant.

She was thrown out of the farm and left with a 'reputation'.

Kitty knew only too well that once word got around she would never find employment in the area and that only left the prospect of returning in disgrace to the Poor House. Tragically Kitty Jay took the only other option and was found hanging in one of the barns at Canna.

The custom of the day was that any suicide could not be buried in consecrated ground as so they were interred at a crossroads, some times with a stake driven through their hearts. This was to ensure that the restless soul of the departed could not return to haunt god fearing mortals.

It is said a dark figure can sometimes be seen kneeling beside the sad little mound with bowed head and its face buried in its hands.

The other phenomenon associated with the Kitty’s resting place is the daily appearance of fresh flowers on the grave. Nobody is ever seen leaving them but no matter what time of year there are always flowers, posies or greenery sat on the lonely mound.