Cursed Places & Ill-Fated Stones

Some places carry a warning. A stone that must not be moved, a treasure that cannot be lifted, a family doom or a blight laid on a hall — the curse explains misfortune and enforces a boundary the living are not meant to cross. Many attach to tombs, boundary stones and disturbed ground.

WitchesWitch's Stone of WestletonWestleton, Suffolk, EnglandA fallen 14th-century gravestone at St Peter's Church where running anti-clockwise with a handkerchief is said to summon the Devil. WitchesWitches of BelvoirBelvoir, Leicestershire, EnglandJoan Flower and her daughters were hanged in 1619 for cursing the sons of the Earl of Rutland at Belvoir Castle; Joan herself died in gaol after calling divine punishment on herself if she were guilty.
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