Hi Sally. I pass Pendle Hil regularly and it seems always to loom black and
dark, even on the sunniest days. I know the Hill itself had nothing to do
with the witches but it looms as a reminder of the place.
I have read the story, several different versions, of Chattox and Demdike
and their broods. The law hung them for all the wrong reasons. They were
poverty racked and feeble minded, as much a victim of the superstitions they
believed in themselves. A nice oem for its time. Regards Arthur.
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From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 5:56 AM
Subject: new sub Pointed hats
> Pointed hats
>
> There are too many pointed hats
> too many black hats reaching for the stars.
> The almost full moon is asleep on a cloud
> and lights shine where a twig broom
> made holes in the umbrella night.
> A grovelling mist sweeps over the moors
> saunters like a crowd of ghosts
> across brown leafed roads and twisted lanes.
> Pendle is awake, her spirit sisters roam
> unleashed across shadowed grasses.
> Moonlit streams wake sleeping fish and
> old owls stare wide eye, from hollowed trees.
> Black cats smile from slated roofs
> creep from secret places.
> There is an age old mystery seeping underfoot
> it clings with dewy frost on soggy soles
> Yawning from the valley, a mystery of magic
> flashes like lightening, tingles rusted gates
> strikes the tremble of this hallowed eve.
>
>
> Sally James
>
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