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In 1922 York Minster hosted delegates from the Church of Butterfly Fairies.
Shockingly Cardinal Moth attacked a Bishop, making holes in his cassock.
Scrying revealed Moth’s cloak to be possessed by a ghost.
It was exorcised with bell, book & a candle, which it circled until dawn.
In 1889, Trafalgar Square in London was a scene of unprecedented bloody carnage as 15 contestants & 34 spectators died, & a further 272 people were injured, during a mass pile-up at the Women’s International Cycling World Cup, which was eventually won by Miss Penelope Farthing.
In 1803, Dublin was plagued by enigmatic levitations.
Suspicion fell on itinerant Leprechauns seeking revenge for a felled fairy tree, then upon a keg of stout tainted by witch’s flying ointment.
But the culprit was Father Seamus O’Fugly, who was convicted of malicious warlockry.
In Amsterdam in 1693 the merchant ship ‘Pandora’, returned to port bearing a sickness caused by the crew smoking cabalistic cannibal cannabis.
Sufferers developed green skins, cancerous tubers, a taste for human flesh & podlike growths which burst to release plague bearing seeds.