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Lux Ferre

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Abraxas (Abrasax, Abraxis)

Abraxas: The Gnostic Power Beyond Good and Evil Abraxas, also written as Abrasax, Abraxis, or Abracax, is one of the most mysterious and paradoxical figures in Gnostic, magical, and demonological tradition. He
11 June 2017
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LILITH

Lilith : Screech Owl; Beautiful Maiden; Dark Maid; Flame of the Revolving Sword; Maid of Desolation; Night Demon; Hand of Inanna; The Night Witch; The Howler Lilith: First Woman, Night Demon and Queen of the Wilderness Few supernatural beings possess
13 June 2017
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Crackenthorpe

Probably the best-known ghost in and around Appleby is one from Cromwellian times known as ‘Peg Sneddle’, an account of whom is given in E. Bellasis’ Machells of Crackenthorpe (1886). Here she
5 December 2021

Calgarth

To Calgarth Hall, once the home of the Philipson family, was attached one of the oldest and best-known traditions of screaming skulls. What may have been the earliest form of the story
5 December 2021

Appleby

About the end of the seventeenth century, says Jeremiah Sullivan, in Cumberland and Westmorland, Ancient and Modern (1857), a man well known in the neighbourhood of Appleby as ‘Old Shepherd’, who had
5 December 2021

Wilcot

The manor house here is built on the site of a former monastery, and like others of similar history is said to be haunted by a monk. The story of this monk,
5 December 2021

Tidworth

In 1681, Joseph Glanvill published his treatise Saducismus Triumphatus, ‘Saduceism Defeated’ – meaning by ‘Saduceism’ the doctrine of the Sadducees mentioned in the New Testament, who denied that there is an afterlife.
5 December 2021

Stourton

In 1930, the local writer Edith Olivier described various apparitions to be seen in and around Stourton. On New Year’s Eve, on a road near there, one might encounter a headless horseman
5 December 2021

Stanton St Bernard

Ralph Whitlock’s book on the folklore of Wiltshire includes a macabre tale which his informants said had happened about a hundred years earlier, i.e. in the 1870s. The wife of a wealthy
5 December 2021

Semley

A sinister story was collected by the folklorist Kingsley Palmer in 1969 about a skeleton nicknamed ‘Molly’ kept in Pythouse, a mansion near Semley: Molly is the remains of a female who
5 December 2021

Highworth

In 1922, the writer Alfred Williams, describing the countryside of this area, mentioned a story of ghost-laying which provides a humorous variation on this popular theme. At one time, it is said,
5 December 2021

Heytesbury

In 1901, J. U. Powell reported to Folk-Lore that people of this village were telling vivid tales about how the ghost of a prominent member of the local gentry had been laid
5 December 2021
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