Saturday, October 08, 2005

The St Osyth Witch

5 comments:

Arty said...

Hello my good friends-sorry I have been out of circulation a bit recently-things are looking up-I just happened to be doing this dark tale-I found an old image a long time back of a real witch that had been uncovered in the 1920's -it has creeped me out ever since-no she can creep you out too.

Wastedpapiers said...

Good to have you back Paul. wev'e missed your input here and at Flickr too. A magic spell is needed to keep you here- I'll just nip out for some eye of newt and some bats wings!

Scrapatorium said...

ARTY! *said loudly and with much excitement in voice* Sooooo glad to have you back. We really missed you! Welcome back! Happy to hear that things are better.

That's a wicked collage full of charm! A real witch you say? Do you know more of the story? Also, can you tell me what the snipped words say?

Arty said...

I can expand mine to a large size by double clicking

er or I should say :I can expand my image to a large size by double clicking wghich makes the text clrear it says:

One last unanswered cry from the dark earth

A black song of pain and death.


This witch was one of 13 that were put on trial in 1582 or so and I think all were executed . There is quite a lot of creepy stuff to be found using Google about the St Osyth witches. One talks a bout some bones being re discovered of a witch called Ursula Kemp. I think this may be her-apparantly she had metal rivets driven inro her joints to stop her climbing out of the grave.

Some people say she is to blame for recent disasters in Essex!

Sleep tight kids.

Scrapatorium said...

Eerie, especially the rivets through the joints. Thanks for the info! Time to go out and buy a cross and some holy water.