The Trowbridge Ghost. [From the Bath Herald.] A rustic correspondent has sent the following for insertion; and, as we have received information from another source that the main facts are true, we have been induced,
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Bishopstrow, Wiltshire (mid 19th century)
He was not a Bishopstrow man, but he claimed to have some interest in the parish, for his father’s best days were spent in Bishopstrow and many of his happiest holidays were at the Grange.
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(worst attack of being paid by the inch that I’ve come across) Supposed Witchcraft at Homington. A little girl said to have been bewitched. The 19th century is one in which an allegation that witchcraft
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A Wiltshire Ghost.“A face resembling a cart-wheel and a frightful tail.” The little Wiltshire village of Ham has a ghost – an up-to-date nineteenth century ghost – which discards tradition, and instead of appearing as
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