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Thought it fit in 'Folklore' better than 'Cryptozoology'!
In an old copy of the 'Keighley Herald' from 10th December, 1909 is a story about a woman possessed by a 'water wolf'.
In appearance it was 'like a frog, grey, rough and hard about as big as a knob on her oven door and three inches long'!
(Don't sound much like a wolf to me!)
The woman in question, Maria Judson claimed the wolf had entered her body from spring water at Leeshaw.
The story goes that one evening she prepared a meal of onion mashed with salt and butter. So enticing was the aroma, that as she opened her mouth to sample the food, the wolf climbed out to partake of the meal.
Now, Maria remembered another woman at Crossroads who had made the mistake of letting the wolf back in cos she forgot to keep her moth closed after her wolf had leapt out. Keeping her lips tight shut, she threw her meal into the street and made sure the parasite died slowly and painfully on the coals of her fire...
What is a water wolf?!
Sounds like these things were rife in the early part of last century!
In an old copy of the 'Keighley Herald' from 10th December, 1909 is a story about a woman possessed by a 'water wolf'.
In appearance it was 'like a frog, grey, rough and hard about as big as a knob on her oven door and three inches long'!
(Don't sound much like a wolf to me!)
The woman in question, Maria Judson claimed the wolf had entered her body from spring water at Leeshaw.
The story goes that one evening she prepared a meal of onion mashed with salt and butter. So enticing was the aroma, that as she opened her mouth to sample the food, the wolf climbed out to partake of the meal.
Now, Maria remembered another woman at Crossroads who had made the mistake of letting the wolf back in cos she forgot to keep her moth closed after her wolf had leapt out. Keeping her lips tight shut, she threw her meal into the street and made sure the parasite died slowly and painfully on the coals of her fire...
What is a water wolf?!
Sounds like these things were rife in the early part of last century!
