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ld lady was missing the room empty and now an unmistakable sound of heavy footsteps was coming from the cellar below a few moments more and they began to ascend the stairs the lights flickered before the house plunged into darkness he stood almost paralysed while the footsteps came steadily on until they reached the top of the staircase he could hear choked uneven breathing like that of some animal he tried to call out but his voice would not come meanwhile the thing whatever it was was evidently coming in his direction he moved noiselessly backward intending to slip into one of the empty rooms but to his horror he found no matter how hard he tried he always found himself back in the same room the very room he wished to avoid for the next minute the nameless horror had followed him and he heard the door shut and the key sharply turned he heard this with a mingled sense of terror and relief at least his unseen companion was human surely he hardly knew what he feared he guided himself stealthily and silently past a small table which seemed to occupy the centre of the room against which he had brushed when entering and squeezed himself into the farthest corner then he heard the thing fling itself down on the floor where it seemed to lay for some time quite still at last the throbbing silence was broken by a low nickering laugh jacks blood ran cold for he knew he was shut up with something that was mad either the woman herself or perhaps something of her creation he hardly dared to breathe all at once the thing began to cry and wail shaking the house presently it began to speak again in a low unnaturally quiet monotone every now and then broken by a horrible laugh jacks crouched in his corner disturbed by the hard leaps of his own heart and again the loathsome voice broke into whispered words and cackles suddenly it stopped and seemed to listen jacks listened too in spite of himself jacks uttered a low half articulate cry the thing made a swift movement towards him i shall play the hurting game this time it hissed jacks could hear it feeling round the walls with eager cruel fingers could hear its panting breaths noiselessly he crept backward as it came nearer his arms held tightly against his side so that his clothes might not rustle a loud crash of glass breaking came from one of the empty rooms then the sound of voices and footsteps all at once the creature uttered a terrible scream no merciful heaven it s on me ah it chokes me it chokes me god help there was a sudden wild rush across the room a rasping sound as the window was flung open a heavy sickening thud in the court below and silence and after what seemed half a century at least someone forced open the door lights blazed through the darkness and the confused sound of men s voices was heard is this where he fell asked the officer yes i guess so he answered briefly for the sight in the courtyard had not been a pleasant one and as one of the officers had noted his features were that of a man terrified and his hair matted coated with what appeared to be a great amount of cuckoo spit still foaming and popping it was lucky they had followed up that stray phone call half an hour previously on jacks they found the money it was one of those watertight cases but they never discovered the old lady s black box she d hidden it too well if they had they would have found that her treasure consisted of three yellowing newspaper cuttings whose headlines read gypsy family claim harassment mayor jacks forces eviction gypsy mother s suicide no wonder franz lay smiling to herself on the sofa her black wig had tumbled to the floor and her old gnarled head drooped against the cushions but what did that matter she had waited a long time to perfect her craft p j hodge is the author of ghosts and other supernatural guests 12 tales of supernatural terror available from amazon as ebook and kindle http mybook to ghosts winner of gothic reader book of the year posted in beltane ghosts horror may day walpurgis witchcraft tagged 30th april walpurgis night walpurgisnacht witch stories witches night dying embers by m r cosby april 28 2014 by freaky folk tales 0 i have a recommendation for you all dying embers the first collection of strange stories by m r cosby is out now amazon for kindle http goo gl kv4iwr satalyte publishing paperback http goo gl tkmn1l these are superbly crafted tales of dark fiction that are guaranteed to keep you on edge a collection that manages to be at once unsettling disorientating and bracing in its variety an inspiring exhilarating collection of haunting tales james everington author of falling over these are powerful energetically written tales that are some of the finest i ve read in the genre of dark fiction the language is wonderfully imaginative and instantly thrusts the reader into the realms of slowly revealed decay a must read p j hodge author of ghosts and other supernatural guests posted in ghosts horror paranormal supernatural tagged cosby dying embers dying embers martin cosby mr cosby the witch and the king an ancient tale of sorcery april 26 2014 by freaky folk tales 3 in the days leading up to walpurgis eve walpurgisnacht last day of april and night of the witches i ll be adding some tales of sorcery to the site enjoy perched on the border of two english counties oxfordshire and warwickshire stand a group of mysterious stones known as the king s men part of a much larger arrangement the rollright stones the king s men are thought to be even older than stonehenge like sentries defending some forgotten treasure they have stood for centuries gazing sombrely over fields of grassland visit on a cold morning and you re likely to see the circle bathed in an eerie mist an atmosphere of ancient magic and enchantment and the reason why the stones are the subject of many myths and legends and where there are legends come druids magicians mystics and storytellers all who have visited the stones over the centuries attempting to understand and harness their secret power to this day the guardians of magic still gather here for meetings and rituals visit and you may very well see their like standing amongst the decaying pillars but if you do mind that you are entering a place of sorcery strange energies have been detected around the stones particularly in the circle of the king s men continue reading posted in beltane folk tale ghosts horror walpurgis witchcraft tagged history rollright stones legend rollright stones rollright stones folk tale warwickshire ghost tales the druids knew may day a history of may day customs and celebrations april 25 2014 by freaky folk tales 5 may day which this year falls on thursday is probably the oldest british festival in the calendar two thousand years ago it was celebrated by the druids who offered sacrifices from sacred mountains and kindled fires on the hilltops by night many interesting old customs applied to the day until 1889 when it became the day for celebration of the international labour movement may day has been one of the four great witches sabbaths and so the peasants of many countries say the witches would in the early hours ride on he goats and broomsticks to the ancient places of sacrifice to hold revel there with the prince of darkness it has been the day of maypole dancing and typically english folk customs the milkmaids dance the frolic of jack in the green and the rush to the field to gather may dew which as a cosmetic was said to ensure perpetual youth now may day is notable only for the labour demonstrations that are held throughout europe and america on that day its more colourful associations are practically only memories but what memories they are celebrations something akin to those of the ancient druids were common among many of the peasant peoples of europe in the days of christ and until about a century ago were still observed in some parts of ireland the scottish highlands and the isle of wight about the same time the romans were flocking into the meadows to pay homage to the goddess flora in the floralian celebrations these began on april 28th and usually ended on may day in the history of may day then comes a gap of more than 1 000 years then we find chaucer writing of the court that went to fetche the floures freshe and braunche and blome the days of maying had begun two hundred years later we find the young king henry viii with his girl wife katharine riding to shooters hill to bring in the may his cavalcade fell in with a band of archers 200 strong whose chieftain was called robin hood in an exhibition the archers sent their arrows overhead with a strange sound says a chronicler that delighted the king and queen and their company in the tudor days too we find a great maypole sometimes as high as the mast of a vessel of 100 tons being brought into the centre of the revels but here a chronicler sees a relic of the druid and celtic customs he writes that the maypole a skynking ydol was erected and round it the people did daunce about like as the heathen people did at the dedication of idols he was convinced that the lord over their pastimes was sathan prince of hell the upshot of this and many similar opinions was that maypole dancing was barred by the puritans under cromwell but on the very first may day after the restoration a worthy successor was put up with much ceremony opposite somerset house the merry people of the old days had a maypole permanently fixed in every town and some of these still survive in some of the more remote parts of the country but they are now few and far between the custom of having a queen of the may seems to be a relic of the roman celebration of may day when a flower crowned maid was the living representation of the goddess flora at these old english dances the queen of the may did not join in the revelries with her subjects but sat half covered with flowers as an object of admiration to all the townspeople it must have been a dull post but the admiration it conjured up in the breasts of the simple peasants must have been the recompense there are still may queens in some parts of france a part of all true maying was the gathering of the may dew for may dew especially that of may day had a wonderful reputation as a cosmetic and for preserving youth thus samuel pepys noted in his diary one may eve my wife away to woolwich in order to a little ayre and to lie there tonight and so gather may dew tomorrow morning which mrs turner hath taught her is the only thing in the world to wash her face with more than a century later may 2nd 1791 the morning post records that many people went into the fields to bathe their faces in the dew under the idea that it would render them beautiful in london until relatively recently may day was kept up by parties comprising three chimney sweeps in fantastic costumes a woman and a jack in the green who was concealed under a frame of herbs and flowers they would dance every now and again to the music of pipe and drum in the hope of being rewarded with pennies the jack in the green has been given a welcome new lease of life in recent years what with revivals in rochester hastings and whitstable among many others milkmaids a century ago had much the same custom they danced round a cow earlier still they were joined by a man bearing a frame which bore silver flagons and dishes these silver things were lent out at so much an hour by pawnbrokers and would grace many milk maids dances in the course of a may day on may day eve and in the early hours of may day according to the peasants of finland there was not a hilltop in the country that was not thronged by demons and sorcerers on brocken the highest point of the hartz mountains in germany too witches were believed to meet on the eve of may day or walpurgis eve as it is known in black magic works this was one of the anniversaries when the meetings were particularly solemn with as large an attendance as possible all who belonged to the infernal cult were required to present themselves punishment was meted out to those who were slack or slow there does not appear to be any formal order in the walpurgis eve ceremonies but one writer of the black art tells of mere clowning and japery mixed up with circumstances of the extremest horror childishness and folly with loathly abominations now sadly practically all these interesting old customs have died out in their place has been born the labour demonstrations despite this however there are pockets where the old traditions still survive and i will be attendance next weekend yes a little late for may day itself at one such gathering the downton cuckoo fair where there will be merrymaking of the finest order including maypole dancing morris dancers and no doubt a veritable feast of olde worlde crafts may day celebrations at elstow 1939 click on the image below posted in folk tales folklore may day may day customs walpurgis wiccan tagged may day customs walpurgis eve walpurgis night in that sleep of death april 22 2014 by freaky folk tales 3 to mark shakespeare s 450th birthday and st george s day i have written a little tale of death and dreaming 23rd april 1924 i had settled down for the night in the porch of a small church near alveston on the road from stratford with the words of the great bard heavy on my mind but alas they were far more as you like it travellers must be content than henry v and st george when i was awoken suddenly by a sensation that i shall never forget a wave of sheer physical horror seemed to engulf my body i sat up and looked around only the brook and the stars were there i lay down again and once more that wave of horror swept over my consciousness it was when fear began to obtrude that i got off the bench and went outside the pole star had nearly completed its great sweep across the north and i judged the time to be about four in the morning once outside in the porch in the keen air the fear and the horror departed but i knew another feeling this time one of expectation something impelled me to go along the side of the little lane on the hill towards the rear where earlier i had seen half a dozen headstones i must have stood there for quite a while when i heard voices they seemed low and i could scarcely separate them from the voice of the brook but they were voices then i saw a little group of people standing in the darkness less than fifty yards away they appeared to be talking amongst themselves the strangeness much less the weirdness of the scene held me to the spot then as i peered at them i saw a figure coming towards me ten feet from me the figure was plain and i saw it was a girl possibly 20 years old who wore a long white garment and whose feet to my utter astonishment were bare i find it very hard to describe my sensation at that moment but the predominant one was that i was not afraid instead of clearing out i stood there waiting for what she was the first to speak won t you stay with us she asked and her voice was t...