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    Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. 1
    Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. 1
    Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. 1
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    Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. 1

    By C. M. Rosens

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    A companion book to The Crows that stands alone as a short volume of folk stories and urban legends from Pagham-on-Sea, East Sussex. This volume features local variants of English folktales, as collected by Rev. J. D. Allardyce (1832-1920); extracts from Fairwood House: A History by Harold Bishop (Basingstoke University Press: Basingstoke, 1987) and an extract from Harold Bishop's translation of the Chronica Majora, the anonymous twelfth century chronicle of Fairwood Abbey are reprinted with kind permission.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. M. Rosens
    Release dateJul 23, 2020
    ISBN9781005713607
    Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. 1
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    C. M. Rosens

    C. M. Rosens is an author and fairy godmother of two based in England and Wales, but is lucky enough to have family and friends all over the world. She is a lover of the Gothic, the Paranormal and the just plain Weird. She wanted to go into acting once but was persuaded to “get a real job”. As a result, she has a PhD in Medieval Welsh History, an academic alter-ego, and works part-time at a gym for job security.Summon her with chocolate, ghost stories and central heating.Her corn snake, Jörmungandr, doubles as an artist’s model in his spare time when not studying for his starring role in Ragnarök. He has several felt-pen-on-A4 pictures appearing in such auspicious locations as CMR’s fridge.Her husband is neither serpentine nor plotting the end of the world, which is exactly how she likes him.

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      Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. 1 - C. M. Rosens

      A Medieval Account of the Meteorite Strike in Roman Times, from c.1189

      CHRONICA MAIORA (by an anonymous monk of Fairwood Abbey, a small Benedictine foundation of 1165, dissolved 1532) trans. and ed. Harold Bishop, (Basingstoke University Press: Basingstoke, 1973)

      IN THE DAYS OF THE Romans, a hairy-tailed star fell from heaven and struck the ground where the ironworks once stood. Their soothsayers claimed this as a bad omen, and with the star came a pestilence among the Roman camp, a punishment from Almighty God for their treatment of the local inhabitants who had lately turned to Most Holy Christ under the teaching of missionaries from Rome. For their commander (dominus) was a cruel man and by the influence of the devil, an enemy of the new faith [Christianity].

      And he had taken the missionaries - St Theophilus, St Ambrosius and St Justus - to be flayed and hanged outside the camp, and from the place where the blood of these three gentle martyrs collected in a pool, a holy spring came forth from the ground between the roots of the tree on which they were hanged, and many infirm were healed who drank from it.

      After the fall of the comet, the Roman forge was destroyed, and those who disturbed the place where it fell became as beasts, without reason or the power of speech. Just as the great king Nebuchadnezzar was struck down in the day of Daniel, so too were the Romans struck down. Many of the commander's men were heard to howl and snarl as if they were wolves or dogs, and they did slaver and foam at the mouth as though possessed. At night they roamed the woods and lonely countryside in the most polluted places, looking for travellers to waylay and to bite at, until their own fellow-soldiers came with swords and others also with swords and spears and some with sticks to make a swift end of them.

      The crater wherein it lay became the cradle of the pestilence that did destroy the Roman camp and its most cruel commander, and thus did the mighty hand of our Lord God strike against [their] wickedness.

      To this day, the ground whereon the comet fell is unwholesome and is much avoided. People do not travel there, and will not go that way by night. Yet in the

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