Salutations
All!
Here’s a curious
piece I found about Dunscar Farm in Derbyshire. This is an extract from a book
called Household Tales by SO Addy in 1895.
There is an old farmhouse in the Peak Forest, in
Derbyshire, at which, it is said, there once lived two sisters who loved the
same man. To put an end to their rivalry one sister murdered the other, but the
dying sister said that her bones would never rest in any grave. And so it
happens that her bones are kept in a ‘chees-vat’ in the farmhouse which stands
in the staircase window. If the bones are removed from the vat trouble comes
upon the house, strange noises are heard at night, the cattle die, or are
seized with illness.
Whatever the
truth of the matter is, whether the bones were a curio or part of a practise to
ward off evil spirits, the skull specifically has been mentioned in Clarence
Daniels’s Ghosts of Derbyshire. There
are also tales circulating of a very similar story at Tunstead Farm near
Chapel-en-la-Frith in Derbyshire.
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