A Real Witch?
I wonder if any one else has had the following thing happen to them.
Many years ago - when I must have been about 8 or 9 - a friend and I were playing in our local grave yard (for those interested it is in Cockfosters in North London - Barnet area). We were messying around and generally acting up like 8 or 9 year old boys do. I recall quite clearly that we were throwing flowers at each other (for some odd reason!) when suddenly we heard a womans laugh. More like a cackle. Very loud and very close. We both turned around to see (and I kid you not!) a fully fuctioning witch - sitting there by the path right behiond us and no more than a few feet away. She had a Black hat, couldron, cat - the works! In fact it was exactly as any young boy might think a witch in the flesh might look like.
Anyway - we both bolted out of that grave yeard as fast as we could and really didnt think much more about it for many years. Then a few years ago I met up with my old friend (Im 44 now - so what I am recalling happened over 30 years ago) and I mentioned what had happened. I thought that maybe it might have been me just dreaming it and over time believed it to be a true event. He went white and recalled the exact same event.
What was odd was that there is simply no way she could have crept up on us like that. It was almost as though something took the form of a witch to simply scare us in to leaving. It worked I can tell you! We never again played in the grave yard after that and never did we disrespect the graves as we had done then.
I wonder if any one else has had the following thing happen to them.
Many years ago - when I must have been about 8 or 9 - a friend and I were playing in our local grave yard (for those interested it is in Cockfosters in North London - Barnet area). We were messying around and generally acting up like 8 or 9 year old boys do. I recall quite clearly that we were throwing flowers at each other (for some odd reason!) when suddenly we heard a womans laugh. More like a cackle. Very loud and very close. We both turned around to see (and I kid you not!) a fully fuctioning witch - sitting there by the path right behiond us and no more than a few feet away. She had a Black hat, couldron, cat - the works! In fact it was exactly as any young boy might think a witch in the flesh might look like.
Anyway - we both bolted out of that grave yeard as fast as we could and really didnt think much more about it for many years. Then a few years ago I met up with my old friend (Im 44 now - so what I am recalling happened over 30 years ago) and I mentioned what had happened. I thought that maybe it might have been me just dreaming it and over time believed it to be a true event. He went white and recalled the exact same event.
What was odd was that there is simply no way she could have crept up on us like that. It was almost as though something took the form of a witch to simply scare us in to leaving. It worked I can tell you! We never again played in the grave yard after that and never did we disrespect the graves as we had done then.