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Japonica Cottage, Walcote |
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1910 |
| As a child, we were always being told that a witch use to live in this house. The house use to be called Holloway Cottage. Other children were also being told by their parents that a witch lived here. In fact every child in Haselor School would have known about a witch living here. I realise now that families that had lived in the area for several generations had passed down the story. |
| Now a days, not many families stay in the village for several generations and the legend is not being passed on. |
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The Legend of the Witch |
| Holloway Cottage is on the side of a hill, called Walcote Hill and one day a horse and cart got stuck trying to go up the hill. After many attempts to get up the hill, a witch then came out of the cottage and said, "I can see your problem", and then proceeded to remove a piece of straw from in front of the cart wheel, and the horse and cart was then able to continue up the hill. The hill was very rutted at the time with small elm trees growing either side of the ruts in the road. This was in the days before tarmac. |
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