moonchildhippy
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Posted: June 10 2008, 04:59 |
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| Quote (Inkanta @ June 09 2008, 23:36) | | Quote (moonchildhippy @ June 08 2008, 19:15) |
Seeing this thread has made me want to go to Kington again, but i'm currently in a similar situation to The Caveman as regards finances  . I know things will get better once I've taxed an MOT'eed my car, that's providing Greedy Grabber Gordon doesn't keep taxing us to the hilt with petrol/diesel duty FFS!!! Ther's a limit as to how much British citizens can take .
Meanwhile I'll have to make do with being transported to Kington with the music and pictures, going there really brought Hergest Ridge to life in the earth as so to speak   .
Speaking of weird goings on there's a legend "Black Vaughan" , a Lord who lived at Hergest Croft and his black dog, and an Exorcism see here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/features/2004/04/hound.shtml
However the black dogs I did see in and around Kington were all friendly labradors  , I didn't feel any fear walking up The Ridge of an evening and coming back down as dusk fell:D
A Herefordshire author and a historian believe that the legend of Black Vaughan inspired The Hound Of The Baskervilles (see link above). |
That's pretty much the story we were told in Kington by our host, but I think he also said that Lord Vaughan's spirit is now trapped in a box, which lays beneath the whetstone on Hergest Ridge. The ghost dog continues to roam the Ridge in search of his master, and apparently if you see the dog, you're not long for this world. The Hound of the Baskervilles may have based on this, indeed. BTW, the day that we arrived in Kington, one of the Baskerville descendants had been run over by a train.
We didn't see *the* dog either, but instead a man was running two black dogs. It was just after Mr. Bush was elected for the second time. The man's son had married a woman from the USA and was living in Michigan, one of the blue states that hadn't voted for him. We commiserated about the election results, and I told him that some of us worked very hard to get the other guy elected, and his response was, "Well, you didn't work hard enough, did you?" Hmm. If only someone could have exorcised Bush. But (getting back to HR)....you know? To me, the place feels so spiritual, and it is all good. |
Speaking of exorcising Bush!!!!
OUT DEMONS OUT!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSdSaV_t2Ts , it's a track I play often if I feel something needs exorcising.
Yep I must agree about Hergest Ridge being a very spiritual place, so peaceful and tranquil despite of the Black Shuck legend , shuck being an East Anglian term for these spirits.
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I'm going slightly mad,
It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad
If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come.
I'm challenging taboos surrounding mental health
"Part time hippy"
I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS
BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!
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