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Article: Walking: Plenty of sheep but no sign of witches
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1994
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"The World, according to the best geographers, is divided into
Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Romney Marsh. In this last named
and fifth quarter of the globe, a Witch may still be occasionally
discovered in favourable, ie stormy, seasons, weathering Dungeness
Point in an egg-shell, or careering on her broom-stick over
Dymchurch wall."
SO WROTE Thomas Ingoldsby in his introduction to The Leech of
Folkestone, one of the Ingoldsby Legends. Thomas Ingoldsby, alias
Richard Harris Barham, was rector of Snargate Parish on Romney
Marsh, Kent, in the early 19th century. We decided to walk in his
parish, and others near by, to see for ourselves whether "The
Marsh" was still such a special and ...