A ghost story for Halloween

Hereward Wakes

This is heavily influenced by all my years spent doing Anglo-Saxon re-enactment.  Also by the fact that we've just moved to the Fens, which is Hereward's country.  He was a real Robin Hood, who held out against the Norman invasion for years.  They tried everything to get rid of him, including bringing in a witch to curse him, but in the end they couldn't defeat him - they had to give him his lands back.  Naturally, since the story has a happy ending, very few people now remember him at all :)

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