Kindle Countdown Deal for The Doll

 The Doll #4 in The Psychic Sisters series is now on a Kindle Countdown Deal.

The elderly sisters have their hands full this time with a mysterious doll, a centuries old curse and a vengeful witch, and all before they have their second cup of tea!

Each book is a stand alone story so don't worry if you haven't read any of Queenie and Sybil's previous hair raising adventures!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0843QVJFG

Locations featured in The Haunting of Stoke Water, # 3 in the Psychic Sisters series

 

A strange evil lurks within the old building; to some it appears an innocent  child 

but Queenie and Sybil see the truth, that it is pure evil.

They soon realise that it has a sinister motive in befriending the child: to steal her soul.

Using their occult knowledge they begin to uncover the truth  surrounding the old Victorian building

 and the significance of a murder that happened 150 years earlier.

In the book Queenie and Sybil visit the church at Stoke Abbott 

in an effort to track down the grave of the murdered girl.

This fresh water spring runs directly out of the hillside and can be drunk, hence the cup. Many years ago when I was just a nipper the water became polluted so was not safe to use. In times past the villagers would gather here at the lions head to collect their water for the day.

The yew in the churchyard where the ghosts of the children appear.

( Visited the graveyard just last week and the iron railings have been removed)

Gerrards Hill Stoke Abbott. The murderer runs from the scene of the crime up Anchor Lane, which we show on the video, ( link below) across Waddon Hill,  a Roman  hill fort, ( it has been more than half a century since I played as a child amongst the ramparts  and ditches on the hill)

and across to Gerrards Hill, down Wood Lane and back to Stoke Water House.

Wood lane, incredibly steep sided. Many years ago we kept cattle in the field on the right. The livestock was checked every day but on one occasion we had one cow go missing. It was found eventually; it had fallen off the edge and was suspended in one of the large trees growing from the side of the lane. Needless to say the animal was dead so that just shows how steep the sides were.

An Old photo of the workhouse; a grim place!

It is here that the hauntings take place.

See below for the link to the book on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BBWB41J

And here...drum roll! is the link for our video!

https://youtu.be/jVMQXayodRM

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The Three Spinsters Stone

The name drives from the local  legend of three spinsters living nearby, not spinsters 

as we know the term but 'spinsters' in the woollen sense...wool spinners. 

The tale goes that one morning the three women set out to take their baskets of spun 

wool to the local wool trader and stopped for a rest in the lane bordering 

the 'Three Stones' field. 

For some reason they decided to re-erect the three granite slabs then replace 

the huge capstone on top, hence the name Spinsters Rock!

Although in 1848 Samuel Rowe suggested the theory that the Three Spinsters is a link 

with the three Fatal Sisters, Urd, Verdani and Skuld of Norse Mythology  who lived 

at the base of Yggdrasil, The World Tree. 

They were said to weave the destiny of the world and would visit any newborn to 

determine its destiny.

The Spinsters Rock is a Neolithic chambered tomb, kown as a Dolmen or Cromlech, found on Dartmoor near Drewsteighton and  is the best surviving example in the county.

The word Dolmen is derived from the Celtic words daul, a table, and maen, a stone.

Originally covered by a mound of earth or stones. The capstone alone wighs 16 tons and is 3.65m long by 2.7 wide.

The tomb collapsed in 1862 after the surrounding field was ploughed during a very wet season prior to planting a crop of winter wheat, yes they had bad weather then as well! In fact the summer of 1860 and 1862 was recorded as being  the wettest and coldest across England since their records began.

There is divided opinion who was responsible for its restoration either local Vicar Rev W. Ponsford or a Mrs Bragg of Fulford.

We visited this site a few weeks ago , it quite an impressive Dolmen and the picture does not do it justice. It was being guarded by three malevolent sheep and later that night a fierce storm blew up, the wind howled and shrieked and I could hear 'fell voices on the wind' so I think we might have disturbed the three spinsters in some way!

Queenies Beresford's

Book of 

very useful 

Spells

Queenie is about to write her own useful spell book, nagged by her sister Sybil 

who thinks she should do it before Queenie gets too old. 

This will include spells to defeat dark souls, different recipes for tea ..of course, and 

anything  else Queenie thinks might be interesting and useful for witches  and mortals.

Hopefully she will be able to concentrate long enough to get it finished sometime soon...other adventures permitting!