Brewer's: Stowe Nine Churches

A hamlet of Stowe, Northamptonshire. The tradition is that the people of this hamlet wished to build a church, and made nine ineffectual efforts to do so, for every time the church was finished the devil came by night and knocked it down again.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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