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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-12-19, Page 16r 14,41M MUM MOMs, ll . OX'AL SEC 1983 SEAFORTH STORES will remain OPEN NEXT FRIDAY - SATURDAY - MONDAY and TUESDAY EVENINGS 'til 10:00 p.m. NEED RUBBER STAMPS THE HURON EXPOSITOR Phone 141 Seaforth I,„.1 :.1 : , i�: 1.: 1 ;r<i, 1' r1 1 ,r1': i' y1,1r1 r1 r N • , ., •... .r, .w ,.. •..s .. . n. v,, .. n.•. w. '••... .Y, .�. Special Prices on TELEVISION SETS DRYERS (New andUsed) There is no more pleasing ChristmasGift than an Electrical Gift! `' SPECIAL FOR CHRISTMAS END FOOD FREEZING WORRIES with a 23 cubic foot DEEP FREEZE $229.95 Limited Quantity Christmas Shoppers ! ! Here's Your Chance to Save $ $ $ Toasters, Kettles, Electric Blankets, Radios, Transistors, Record Players, Vacuum Cleaners, Polishers. DUBLIN ELECTRIC Phone 70 R 2 ON NM DUBLIN Store Open Every Day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday and Saturday Evenings '�1H1r1-i'. ✓'wir�i.iw':w6;ri 1 i 1'wi.r1:riw �1y1r�1w�:•"•' • ThE:,t.s.e.E-hots ThBy THORNE. THORNE) e ghosts that haunted Scrgoge in Dicken's famous Christmas Carol were only meek apparitions compared to some of the phantoms that stalk the shadows at Christmas in our own day. The winter climate of Britain must be ideal for spooks, since it is on that island of grey mists that most of the ghosts of Christmas thrive. Many old English halls and castles have their legends and Christmas phantoms, and Cum - nor Hall near Oxford is among the best known. Before Cumnor Hall war de- stroyed, the ghost of Amy Rob- sart walked the grounds each Christmas for almost.250 years. Amy was the wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. She married Leicester when she was only 17 years old, but saw little of her husband. He was a fav- orite of Elizabeth I and spent all his time at Court, leaving Amy to live alone at Cufnnor Hall. It soon became rumored in Court circles that Elizabeth and Leicester wanted to be married. This, of course, was impossible, since the earl was already mar- ried to Amy. No one knew how it happen- ed, but soon after Amy was found dead at the foot of the great staircase at the Hall. . 1 -4 1, 1 ri,r1,r1. «1i .t �1:r1 rl: a 1. .1. l• 1,r ;1Yl,r1s1t:1,1'x GIFTS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY! • From Your Family Clothing Store Give a Gift Certificate If you're still in doubt, here's the ideal way to make it a Very Merry Christmas . . Give a Gift Certificate I etenMil her nedk where the rope cut deep into her flesh. Few inhabitants dare to en- ter those woods at night, par- ticularly • on Christmas Eve, when it is known that Nan Tuek walks in the shadows of the trees, crying to heaven for help from the mob. Canada has its share of ghosts, but there is no well- known one directly associated with Christmas. Phantbm Ship However, North America has one particularly famous Christ- mas spectre to lboast of — the phantom ship of the Florida Everglades. Eyewitnesses describe t h e ship as a mass of ragged sails and decayed timber, drifting slowly through the misty man- grove swamps of the Ever- glades. A luminous blue light is said to flicker through the rotting ribs of the vessel as the phantom pirates act out ov- er and over again the evil deed that brought them and their ship to this doom. The ship was originally a Accusing Stare But Leicester had not seen the last of Amy. The following Christmas her pale shape ap- peared near the staircase where she had died, and she returned every Christmas, to stare ' trag- ically and accusingly at all who still lived in the Hall. After the victory over the Spanish Armada, Leicester one day was returning home through Wychwood Forest, tired and sick after battle. Without warning, the spec- tral shape of his wife loomed before him, and with a great laugh his phantom wife pre- dicted that he would be dead within 10 days. A week later it was announc- ed at Court that Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, had died. Amy continued to haunt Cum - nor Hall every Christmas until the house was demolished in 1810. Her spirit then moved to her parents' home at Syder- stone Hall, where she walks to this day, so it is said. Seeks Vengeance Well known for its ghosts is Britain's Glamis Castle, where the Queen Mother spent her childhood and Princess Mar- garet was born. Most famous of the Glamis ghosts is Janet, Lady Glamis, wife of the sixth earl. Tried and convicted of plot- ting the death of James V, Lady Glamis was burned at the stake as a witch. Each Christmas she returns to float silently down the moonlit corrider, seeking vengeance on her accusers. Cortachy Castle in Scotland is haunted by the ghost of a drummer boy who kept secret trysts with the beautiful Coun- tess of Airlie three centuries ago. Their romance—was dis- covered by the earl, who promptly had the boy sealed in his own drum and flung from the castle turret. Today, as Christmas Day approaches, the hollow beats of a ghostly drum echo through the stone corri- dors. The estate of Lyme Park in England is known for an un- usual Christmas apparition. In 1422 Sir Piers Legh, own- er of Lyme Park, was killed in Paris. His body was brought back and buried in the family vault. At Christmastime a phantom funeral has often been seen slowly ascending the hill to the vault. Behind this grey procession walks a special figure in white. It is the shadow of Blanche, a woman who loved Sir Piers and who fell dead with grief when she learned of his death. Young 'Witch' Witches are normally associ- ated with Hallowe'en, but at Buxted there is a witch that haunts the neighborhood, of Tucks Wood only at Christmas. It is said a young and beauti- ful girl named Nan Tuck was labelled a witch by superstitious villagers. Ugly rumors about Nan were spread throughout the country, until one day the Vil- lagers gathered into a mob, de- termined to drown Nan in the stream below a mill as punish- ment for her witchery. The frightened girl fled to Buxted Church for sanctuary, with the mob howling at her heels. She reached the church door safely, but was kept but by the parson, who shouted that he- would not protect a witch in his church. Terrified, she fled into the gloom of Tucks Wood. To es- cape the bloodthirsty villagers, she hanged herself from a tree. The angry villagers found her body, tore it down from the tree, hauled it roughly back to the village, and buried it without ceremony or regret on uncon- secrated ground . outside the churchyard. Near her grave they put up a stone with a strange feathery design, in- tended to depict the wings that the devil had given to that ter- rible witch, the young Nan. Tuck. Today there are villagers who swear they have seen the ghbat of Nan Tuck groping with out- stretched hands through the gloomy woods, her eyes widd with terror, her face whitend afraid. And there are those Who toll of 'it sryollon . ,idle; YOUR FAMILY CLOTHING CENTRE EVE -MAR STORES PHONE 405 — S1AFOR'r.I r r« * r �..• r' �;. alk at Christrnas Pirate vessel, one of many that infested the Caribbean and the Florida Keys. The pirates one day attacked a merchantman, looting it and mercilessly put, - ting its crew to death. One of the victims, with ,.his dying breath, called upon heav- en for vengeance. Vengeance came with terrify - When they called her a witch, poor Nan Tuck could only cry to heaven for help. A SMILE OR TWO "Munnpy, today a gentleman asked me for MY name," "That was nice of- him." "Yes, mummy, and then he told it to s policeman." P Lady Customer: "I want a Christmas present for my hus- band." Floorwalker: "How long have you been married, madam?" 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