Folklore of Lincolnshire by Susanna O'Neill

Author:Susanna O'Neill
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752482392
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

There have long been tales of hares throughout the world, with links to the moon and as creatures belonging to witchcraft or even disguised as witches. Ghost hunter Rod Collins10 affirms that Bolingbroke Castle was once used to hold a witch and states that the apparition is her ghost.

There is the tale of another hare-like creature being seen along the road between Kirton and Grayingham, thought possibly to be a nineteenth-century haunting, based on the story of a murder that happened there. Rudkin presents the account of one B. Willoughton, who tells that a man named Copeman was murdered by one Trafford in this place, and Trafford is said to have laid the body out in the field by the edge of the lane. Since then, grass is supposedly never able to grow where Copeman’s head and heels touched the ground.

But there is something in the ‘auntin’ there…One night me an’ a pal ‘ad been to Kirton…we was bicyclin’ back, an’ when we got to that bit ‘o road…there was a man a- ‘orse-back comin’ at us up the road. Now, whether we went through ‘im; or if we didn’t, where ‘e went to I don’t know! But we came ‘ome like greased lightnin’ after that, I can tell yer!

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