Crossword-Solution: FOGOU 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And then he remembered that up on yonder moors--whose ferns and granite boulders he could see plainly in the moonlight--there was a "gashly owld fogou,"[N] where, if a man went at midnight prepared to boldly summon Hate and to "turn a stone"[O] in her honour, his hatred would be accomplished for him "as sure as death." "An' I'll go there, ef I die for it!" said he grimly to himself.

Elijah had made his way to the fogou, determined to front Hate and to compel her to keep faith with him, even if he squeezed her life out through her throat.

They rushed down the hillside screaming with terror; and, when safe among the cottages, began to babble incoherently that there was a ghost up yonder in the "owld hunted fogou," they had seen its face--and it was white--so white! The villagers began to have an inkling of the truth, and went toiling up through the ferns in a body.

The name is sometimes spelt Dolor, suggestive of grief, but its origin is not easy to trace; Hugo seems to be a corruption of the Cornish word _fogou_, meaning a cave.

The curious _fogou_ of Pendeen Vau was actually in the garden of his birthplace, so that he had an early stimulus to research.