Blaidd
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Witchcraft or wierdness??
Jun 19, 2003, 13:42
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As this is sort of local to me, I've followed the Icknield way from Hitchin up through Pegsdon a few times. On more than one occasion mainly on the stretch from the layby car park on the pegsdon-hitchin road up to Galley Hill -(to the left of the hills on your right closed in by hedges - not the path accross the fields), I've seen bird carcasses hanging in trees. Just one every few yards or so. As the path winds up hill towards Galley hill, again in the closely wooded section, I saw a rabbit carcass again in a tree and a number of magpies again, you guessed it, in the trees.
As it's on the enclosed bits of the path it makes it a little more disturbing, but I have absolutely no Idea why they're there. I don't know if some nutter is just buggering about or what, but it's been happening on & off for ages.
Any clues?? Would be nice to know if I'm going to be sacrificed on my next evenings walk!
Blaidd
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Joanna
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Re: Witchcraft or wierdness??
Jun 19, 2003, 13:45
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It's probably just a game keeper. The dead ones are supposed to frighten off the live ones. But I always thought they'd just attract more foxes?
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TomBo
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A truly horrible tale...
Jun 19, 2003, 13:53
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TracEye, my pardnur, works for a conservation charity. She once arrived at the site she was to be working on that day to discover a crucified swan. There could be no explanation but some misguided and sickeningly cruel ritual act. If you ask me, Aleister Crowley (whose writings include the details of how to ritually crucify a toad) has a great deal to answer for.
I'm not saying the dead birds you saw were the results of such a ritual, Blaidd, just that such rituals do go on.
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