Folklore

Just in time for Halloween, I thought I would share  a great folklore story from King's Lynn. 

There is a place that is called Tuesday Market.  Every Tuesday there is a farmers market here.  All the other days of the week, it is a carpark.  (Parking lot for those of us from the U.S.)

Many, many years ago this use to be the area where they performed executions.  People from the town would gather here to see those punishments handed out.  The story below is about one of those executions that happened near this building. 

In 1590 a woman by the name of Margaret Reed has being burned at the stake for being declared a witch.  As the flames started devouring her, her heart exploded from her chest and smashed against the wall of the house belonging to the priest who outed her.  It is then said that the still beating heart rolled all the way to Ouse (the nearby river) and dissappeared into the waters.

If you look closely, above the middle window on the second floor you can still see where her heart hit the wall.

Have a Happy Halloween everyone!