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Guy Fawkes and the Headless Horseman of Wombourne
Once again Guy Fawkes Night is here. For most people in England, it is an occasion for
bonfire, fireworks and a bit of partying laced with
patriotism and love for the monarchy and religion.
Holbeache House near Kingswinford in the West Midlands where the Gun Powder conspirators holed up and fought is a private care home now. |
Surprisingly it was made compulsory by a royal decree the real intent of which was to remind everyone to celebrate the escape from death of a king.
It is merely the irony of life that Guy Fawkes the traitor,
not the King James I who ordered his death and the yearly remembrance, is
remembered every year in an ambiance of mirth and joy long after the King is dead and gone!
It is also paradoxical that, Guy
Fawkes was only an ammunition expert and foot soldier who joined the elite
group of 12 other conspirators who were the main culprits who are all long
since forgotten along with the king himself.
Perhaps, in a future world when
human intelligence gains control over the futility of religious fervour, Guy
Fawkes may be honoured for what he was, a soldier who stood for his convictions
and a man of character who wouldn’t give up on his colleagues even under
torture. Till then everything about him and his group’s saga will remain not
good heritage material to be remembered or protected.
However, for the local folks of
West midlands, where a lot of it happened, the gun powder plot has a lot of local
stories to talk about and pass on to the next generation.
For the village of Wombourne, which
is as old as the times of Guy Fawkes, the bogey of the Headless Horseman, still
talked about around the tables of the local pubs, is what keeps the life and
death of Guy Fawkes in memory.
If you just moved in to
Wombourne, this scary story of recent sightings
of a headless horseman on the Bridgenorth Road which passes by it, is likely to give you second thoughts on your
choice of your location. If you are not bothered about ghosts, it might just
whet your curiosity to delve in to past of this lovely medieval village in the
West Midlands.
Josephine Jasper has dug out the
story for the readers of Dudley Bugle and the story goes like this.
During the last century, Rhymer Greenshill, that wandering minstrel of the 19th Century, delved pretty deeply into most local legends, and his ballad, "The Ghost Riders" offers an explanation for the spooky happenings in the Wood, which hugs the left hand side of Bridgenorth Road as it leaves Himley Village.
A couple of miles away in the Kingswinford direction, lies Holbeache House, the scene of the last skirmish between the fellow-conspirators of Guy Fawkes and the forces of the Sheriff of Worcester.
Stephen Lyttleton, kin to the Lords of Hagley, rode hotfoot to his house at Holbeache after the plot misfired and Guy Fawkes had been captured. With him rode Sir Everard Digby, Catesby and the Winter brothers John and Robert. With a retinue of servants and a wagonload of gun-powder, they crossed the Stour, determined to put up a last stand at Holbeache.
Well-armed and provisioned to withstand a lengthy seige, they must have felt pretty secure, that is, until they discovered that their gun-powder had become wet during the fording of the Stour. Amidst the gunfire and the plunging of the panic-stricken horses, the servants used furniture from the room to build a roaring fire, around which they placed the casks of damp powder. A spark from the fire ignited the gunpowder and a tremendous explosion took place, blowing the roof off the building and killing half-a-dozen of the occupants.
Stephen Littleton and Robert Winter mounted up and managed to escape in the confusion, and were swallowed up in the dense woodland of Pensnett Chase. Lyttleton's young groom, who fought alongside his master in Holbeache House, wounded severly above the throat, managed to climb aboard one of the terror stricken horses and dash through the fire, smoke and the cordon of men-at-arms, and reach the woods, but whereas his master had raced away in the Pensnett Direction and higher ground, young Grove headed for Wombourne and into a section of fenland a mile or so from the house. He was caught there and brutally murdered by the men-at-arms.
We have ample evidence that Rhymer Greenshill based his ballads on actual happenings, and there is justification for believing that Gideon Grove died in this manner. Furthermore, there is no doubt about the Wombourne legend of the "Phantom Horseman" who has repeatedly been sighted within the last decade is none other than the Ghost of Gideon Grove!
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Posted by Unknown
The day a U S couple got arrested for Kissing!
Few Americans know that there
still is a Connecticut law in force in Hartford, which states It is illegal for a
man to kiss his wife on Sunday. At least one American couple couldn't believe itself when the pair were hurled in to a police vehicle for kissing in public on a Sunday!
This bewildered couple was not
in Hartford but was visiting Kerala, an Indian State which takes great pride in
calling itself God’s Own Country, where
laws written by Gods are still Gospel truth.
In fact the local police chief,
who happened to be a lady, was simply enforcing an Indian law which makes it
illegal for anyone to kiss in public on any day, when the couple, unaware of
the local law, kissed before a camera at the request of a journalist who was
covering an unusual event.
Anti Kiss of Life protesters being chased by police.
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The unusual media coverage the
event received in India and the way the whole episode sort of fissile out show
the double standard on morality most Indians can’t shed despite the progress
the country has achieved.
Though initiated by a group of
people with progressive views on liberty and freedom of speech and expression
active on social media, the movement soon gained political overtones inevitable
in one of the politically conscious states of India.
The puritanical moral policing was an act of the
BJP, backed by India’s Hindu religious fundamentalists, who aim to grab the
power from the Congress party who currently govern Kerala.
On the other hand, Kerala’s
communists who are constantly fighting off the BJP has seen a political
opportunity.
The result was that the Kiss of
love event which was organised to be held peacefully was opposed and disturbed
by various organisations under all of these political set ups, forcing the
police to remove the handful of the participants even though the government did
not intent to enforce the law.
The disruption by the political
parties were organised with an eye on the coming election so as to position
themselves on the right side of the kissing divide. But it clearly demonstrates
the hypocrisy of a society which wants to align itself with the free and liberal outside world.
Though this was an isolated
incident which occurred in Kerala, a state politically and socially ahead of rest of the
country, the approach of the BJP which has succeeded in grabbing power at the
national level by unifying and concentrating the votes of the Hindus who form
the majority, in holding on to the archaic social set up of India is what
worries the progressive minded in India.
Incidentally this was reflected
in a cartoon by the New York times on the occasion of the success of India’s
Mars mission, which lead to widespread protests and eventual apology from the paper.
Meanwhile, the Kiss of Love
brigade of Kerala has actually claimed success of their movement and promised
to regroup and continue their efforts to change the social attitude of their countrymen regarding freedom to love and expression
of love.
Monday, November 03, 2014
Posted by Unknown
Why is the thirty year return of Saturn sinister for some?
Saturn, the Vedic astrology says,
is a planet which makes human beings pay up for their past and present Karma
before they die. Keralite astrologers even believe that those who die on a
Saturday would have attained the end of the rebirth cycle, which the Hindus
believe is the route God has prescribed for living beings to attain salvation
and eternal peace.
Does the cyclical return of
Saturn after thirty years to its original position spell doom and gloom for at
least some people? Is that why exactly thirty years after her tragic assassination,
India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is mercilessly being assassinated again?
Isn't the attempt of the current
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to wipe out her name and her ultimate scarifies
for India, exactly on the thirtieth anniversary of her assassination, nothing less than
another assassination of her, thirty years after her death?
While he could have
chosen another day for that, he chose the thirtieth anniversary of her tragic death for inflicting the political blow. Is it due to celestial compulsions?
Narendra Modi called the anti Sikh riots of Delhi, which ensued the cold blooded murder of Indira
Gandhi to avenge her courage to put down the Sikh
separatist who wanted to divide India, as the deepest strike of a knife on
India’s unity.
His words are perhaps a deeper cut on the greatness of Indira Gandhi than those inflicted by hundreds of bullets shot by her own sikh body guards, which killed her.
His words are perhaps a deeper cut on the greatness of Indira Gandhi than those inflicted by hundreds of bullets shot by her own sikh body guards, which killed her.
It may be a mere coincidence that Indira was
assassinated on the birth day of Sardar Patel, but that the BJP and its leader
had to wait thirty years to unashamedly raise the greatness of Sardar Patel, who
died as a lifelong Congressman who really banned their party must have
something to do with the celestial movements.
The question is why didn’t that happen
earlier or later? Has it got something to do with Saturn, which is assumed to
change its position in the coming days?
One can argue that astrology doesn’t apply to dead souls. But Vedic
astrology indeed concedes that a human life span could be as long as 120 years.
If Indira Gandhi somehow survived the attempt on her life thirty years back and
were alive today, Narendra Modi will still try to obliterate her politically
by whatever he can shout to the crowds, It is not difficult for even a
school child to see that the state election for Punjab, in which BJP will contest
alone is not that far away.
Thankfully, Vedic astrology doesn’t
judge the Karma of human beings in isolation from the rest who will share the
good and bad of yours. It weights and blends yours with those of your spouse,
children, parents, close relations, dependants and friends.
For Rahul Gandhi at least, whose
Grant Mother was assassinated when Saturn occupied its loftiest position with
Burning Sun in company, in the house of Libra, thirty years back, the very same
planets have occupied Libra again to witness the second assassination of his
Grant Mother.
In fact Saturn was there for the
past two years which has seen the worst spell of fortune for the whole family. Undoubtedly
periods Saturn’s loftiest state is the worst time for the Gandhi family,
judging from the events in thirty years and the tragedies and political losses.
Even though Indira Gandhi died
during the dasa of Saturn, a period in life where you may have the severest of
set back and toils, Saturn’s wrath and graces were more or less balanced for
her. However the thirty year cyclical movement certainly meant disaster to
Indira Gandhi and her kith and kin every time it visited his position of high
strength, the house of Libra.
Saturday, November 01, 2014
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