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Sheila Kaye-Smith
Superstition Corner
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338075628
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Chapter One
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The road from Vinehall meets the road from Leasan at Superstition Corner. A few yards farther on, the London road runs off westward through Harlot's Wood, while the road to Hastings winds southward down the hill, past Newhouse and Doucegrove, deep into the valley of the River Tillingham.
Long ago, before Newhouse and Doucegrove were built, when Harlot's Wood was Haneholt's Wood, and the Forest of Medyrsham met the Forest of Wogenmarye down by the ford across the Tillingham, Superstition Corner was known as Holly or Holy Horns, because of the long corners of land that ran out into the crossways, and because of the big stone cross that stood facing northward from the edge of Dodyland Shaw. No one knew when the cross was built or who had set it up, but its tradition went back for many hundred years and it had given its name to the farmstead of Holly Crouch Yard, already so old that it was crumbling into decay.