Yes it's true. I love this area of Lancashire as it is steeped in history
and it is also said to be half in fairy land and the other half in
Lancashire.  I camped on a farm in the late summer, early autumn. A bit long
in the tooth for camping I suppose but it was good fun watching the sunset
and the moon rise with just sheep for company bw sally J
>From: Arthur Seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: new sub Pointed hats
>Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:56:26 -0000
>
>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.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>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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