{"id":1319,"date":"2018-08-02T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2022-10-26T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:32:42","slug":"jenny-greenteeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/jenny-greenteeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Greenteeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Willoughby Bedford Journal investigating folklore and superstitions<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I thought of spending a spell of time around witch country, that of Pendle in North West Lancashire. Certainly long before Lancashire became identified with the cotton industry it was famous for its witches. I fancy something a bit more fairy tale and woodland, so have taken, not quite the yellow brick road, but the A59 to Clitheroe to park up by the river Ribble.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m here to meet Ted Hustwick at Brungerley. Standing with shepherd’s crook in hand, flat cap set straight and a body warmer, I spotted Ted easily, not from that description, but his description of himself. Look for someone resembling a hot water cylinder with a jacket tied around it!<\/span><\/p>\n

We walked to a spot along the river bank where Ted said an evil spirit haunts. It\u2019s claimed one life in every seven years, by dragging an unwary traveller to a watery grave. I stopped walking and moved away from the edge of the bank. Ted chuckled, he sounded like an old Landrover struggling to turnover.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly he caught sight of something and surprised me breaking into a run. There, he said, c\u2019mon. Look! The water witch. I was intrigued. C\u2019mon Willoughby, its Jenny Greenteeth! Ted crouched down on the bank side and in doing so I thought he might roll into the river.<\/span><\/p>\n

I caught up and crouched down beside him. See, Jenny Greenteeth.<\/span><\/p>\n

What we were looking at was just another name for the green water plants such as duckweed, which I suspect can ensnare bathers by wrapping its fronds around their limbs and dragging the poor souls down beneath the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ted turned his ruddy face and smiled revealing an unbelievable blinding white set of dentures. Fancy a pie!<\/span><\/p>\n

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