We have gathered a scary bundle of our ghostly and witchy tales from Normandy for you here!
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The ghosts of Normandy past, in Sussex EnglandOur postcard shows the gatehouse of Battle Abbey, built with an impressive wall, to protect one of the richest Abbeys in England from marauding English and raiding French. Ironic considering its very existence is due to a promise made to a Pope by a Norman duke, in 1066. Exploring the Abbey museum of ancient artefacts…
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The gruesome crowd; a true medieval ghost story from NormandyThis week our postcard match is a tiny village in the Orne region of Normandy. Here in the 11th century lived the priest Walkelin and it is his, terrifying, ghost story our guest blogger re-tells today. Our blogger is Orderic Vitalis; Benedictine monk, 11/12th century chronicler and friend of Walkelin. The translation aims to be…
