Word: scrapfaggot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village of Great Leighs in Essex thought itself bewitched last week. On Scrapfaggot Green a G.I., driving a bulldozer, had pushed the stone off the grave of a witch, dead with a stake in her heart these 200 years. Now she was hightailing about the countryside, scattering scaffolds, blowing down haystacks, ringing church bells in the dead of night...
...Down to Scrapfaggot Green for United Press hurried an Irish expert on leprechauns, Dr. D. J. G. MacSweeney. Admittedly, witches were a little out of his line, but the doctor went to work with Celtic canniness, came up with a report-on Publican Sykes. "He is an upstanding citizen . . . but, I fear, a man with a glass in his eye for business. . . . All the witnesses were customers of his pub. . . . The witch legend is a matter for hooting and disbelief in adjoining Little Waltham. Little Walthamites in road crews assure me they have moved the stone a score of times...
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