This little cottage, charming and happy in the sunlight of a Spring day is, nonetheless, surrounded by echoes of the dark.
Built in the mid 1800s, it is presently a holiday home. Once, though, it was home to a family tainted by tragedy. In the garden of the cottage was a well, one of the deepest in Norfolk it was said. A young girl from the family fell in, drowning in the dark waters so far below.
The ghost of this girl still haunts the cottage.
Just outside, now a cross-roads of quiet lanes and country tracks, there was once a gibbet. Long before the building of the cottage, folk would gather here to witness the last moments of a condemned soul.
I don't know if this was a regular execution spot or, more likely, and execution and gibbeting of a criminal nearby the site of their crime. The display of the corpse on the nearest crossroads to confuse the Devil when he came for the soul.
It's a beautiful spot now, but spare a thought for the darker days of this place's past.
///fixated.unlisted.hoot
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