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The Witch of Berkeley
Three nights of guarding.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Old church beside a castle
- Legend from
- Medieval chronicle
- Tone
- Chilling
Chains and a stone coffin could not hold her.
William of Malmesbury tells of a woman of Berkeley who practised witchcraft. As she lay dying, she had her body sewn into a stag's hide and chained in a stone coffin in the church. Devils broke two chains over two nights; on the third a devil broke the last, dragged her out and rode off with her on his horse. NOT FOUND: a second independent account was not read.
One sourceOnly one written account of this legend has been found so far.