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Have you ever heard of "Long Meg of Westminster" ?
Came across a reference on a discussion of comic book superheroines of all things, which made mention of this mythical female, variously described as being of hop-pole height or steeple height and had various adventures chronicled in a pamphlet entitled
"The life of Long Meg of VVestminster containing the mad merry prankes shee played in her life time, not onely in performing sundry quarrels with diuers ruffians about London: but also how valiantly she behaued her selfe in the warres of Bolloingne."
Details are sketchy based on a websearch, she was variously said to have confronted thieves, or defended a woman being beaten, or fought in one of the many wars with France, but some of the wilder stories have her as almost like a female Gulliver with London as Lilliput.
Allegedly, she's buried in the corner of Westminster Abbey....
Came across a reference on a discussion of comic book superheroines of all things, which made mention of this mythical female, variously described as being of hop-pole height or steeple height and had various adventures chronicled in a pamphlet entitled
"The life of Long Meg of VVestminster containing the mad merry prankes shee played in her life time, not onely in performing sundry quarrels with diuers ruffians about London: but also how valiantly she behaued her selfe in the warres of Bolloingne."
Details are sketchy based on a websearch, she was variously said to have confronted thieves, or defended a woman being beaten, or fought in one of the many wars with France, but some of the wilder stories have her as almost like a female Gulliver with London as Lilliput.
Allegedly, she's buried in the corner of Westminster Abbey....