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Japonica Cottage, Walcote |
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c 1910 |
| As a child, in the 1940's, we were often told by our
parents, about a witch that use to
live in this house. In fact every child in Haselor School would have known
and talked about a witch living here. I thought that the witch could
have lived here hundreds of years previously, but now we have a first
hand account by William Sykes meeting the witch in the 1870's. The house use to be called Holloway Cottage.
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| Now a days, not many families stay in the village for several generations and therefore these stories do not get passed on. |
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The Legend of the Witch as told in the 1940's |
| Holloway Cottage is on the side of a hill, called Walcote Hill and one day a horse and cart got stuck trying to go up the hill. After many attempts to get up the hill, a witch then came out of the cottage and said, "I can see your problem", and then proceeded to remove a piece of straw from in front of the cart wheel, and the horse and cart was then able to continue up the hill. |
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John Finnemore, Walcote Farm |
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