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“I have a deadly nightshade
So twisted does it grow
With berries black as midnight
And a skull as white as snow
The vicar’s cocky young son
Came to drink my tea
He touched me without asking
Now he’s buried ‘neath a tree.”
Trad. “Girls’ Skipping Rhyme” from Chokely in Wynterset
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.