Negotiam Perambulans is a short story by british writer E.F.Benson . It details the tale of a man,who,as a child comes to an isolated fisher villiage in West Cornwall and is enchanted with it.He stays at his uncles house during this entiere time,hearing his uncle (who is a vicar) give sermons that are especially teryfiyng,mostly when refering to a couple of painted panels,on which is detailed the horrible death of a sacriligeous person at the hands of of a horrible creature.The panel bears the following biblical text: The young man leaves,resolute never to see his beloved villiage again.