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Lady Howard's coach
Until the last blade is gone.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Ruined castle keep on a wooded mound
- Legend from
- Ballad / Baring-Gould
- Tone
- Chilling
A coach of bones, a black hound, and one blade of grass a night.
Lady Mary Howard of Fitzford, Tavistock, outlived several husbands. Legend made her a murderer, and as penance she rides each night in a coach made of bones, with a black hound, to Okehampton Castle, where the dog must pick a single blade of grass to take back. She must do it until the castle mound is bare. English Heritage cites a ballad and Baring-Gould.