Friday, 24 October 2008
The women with the horse's head
For many years the local folklore of small Cambridgeshire villages Histon and Girton, has told of a strange apparition that would confront cyclists on dark evenings as they made their way between the two villages on Gate House road. During the late nineties to this very day, sightings have been especially frequent due to the fearless explorations (sometimes drunken) of a small group of local residents. From these accounts (which are now fact) we know that the apparition has the figure of a one legged old women and bears the head and features of a rabid horse. The phantom approaches the innocent, making a deafening squeal, rendering them partially deaf; disorientated, the cyclist attempts to continue on his or her journey but the ghostly uniped persists, screaming and slobbering until the cyclist either falls off their bike into a bush or crosses the railway line and enters Histon. The origins and motives of the spectre are still unknown but some believe it to be the ghost of a syphilitic prostitute who was burned by towns folk in the lat 1600s.
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I've never actually seen her, but I know she's always there when I cycle down gatehouse road.
I was talking to a couple of cyclists from History, who were-a-drinkin in the crown. They recon that it ith the LED's of the modern day cycle lights that she gathers her energy from, and that he who dareth turn off all lights will not be disturbed.
Another time I was drinking in the Red Lion and some local folk told a story of the old village librarian who was herself moonlighting, employing herself as a crack-whore. They say she once forced a horse in Girton Stables to do unjust things upon her person. Upon which both she and the horse died...................neither was ever seen, and many people got away without paying large library fines!
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