As it is a warm night, the squire leaves his window open. She is buried in the local graveyard.Ī few weeks later, Sir Matthew and the local vicar are walking by the ash tree at dusk when they spy a creature in the branches that disappears before they can get a good look.
Before the noose is pulled, she dully intones "There will be guests at the Hall". Despite her pleas, she is found guilty and hanged. She always escaped and disappeared before he could catch her. Mothersole climbing the trunk and snipping branches with a dagger. Outside his bedroom window grows a monstrous ash tree, where on moonlit nights he would sometimes supposedly see Mrs. The only evidence of her witchcraft are eyewitness accounts by Sir Matthew Fell, the owner of a local seat named Castringham. Mothersole, a wealthier noblewoman who has property of her own. Many girls and women are accused of casting spells and causing mayhem. In 1690, the English county of Suffolk is wracked with a fear of witches. James, included in his 1904 collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. " The Ash-tree" is a ghost story by British writer M.R.
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