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Widecombe Church The Great Storm: Ball Lightning “Upon Sunday the 21. of October last, In the Parish Church of Withycombe in Devonshire neare Dartmoores, there fell in time of Divine Service a strange darkenesse, increasing more and more, so that the people there assembled could not see to reade in any booke, and suddenly in a fearefull and lamentable manner, a mighty thundering was heard, the ratling whereof did answer much like unto the sound and report of many great Cannons, and terrible strange lightening therewith greatly amazing and astonishing those that heard and saw it, the darkenesse increasing yet more, till they could not (in the interim) see one another; the extraordinarie lightning came into the Church so flaming, that the whole Church was presently filled with fire and smoke, the smell whereof was very loathsome, much like unto the sent of brimstone, some said they saw at first a great ball of fire come in at the window and passe thorough the Church, which so much affighted the whole Congregation that the most part of them fell downe into their seates, and some upon their knees, some on their faces, and some one upon another, with a great cry of burning and scalding they all giving themselves up for dead.” A True Relation Of Those Sad And Lamentable Accidents, Which Happened In And About The Parish Church of Withycombe in the Dartmoores on Sunday the 21. of October last 1638 (London: R. Harford; 1638) reprinted in Brooking Rowe ed., The Two Widecombe Tracts, 1638 giving a Contemporary Account of the great Storm, reprinted with an Introduction (Exeter: James G Commin, 1905).

Exact Location Unknown The Last Wolf “The arrival of the shotgun and the practising artilleryman, since the early-nineteenth century, have taken their toll of some species and changed the nesting habits of others. The red deer suffered planned extermination by the Duke of Bedford’s deer hounds in the 1780s and the last wolves in Britain are said to have been killed in the woods of Drewsteignton (north border-country) and Brimpts (Central Basin) early in the same decade.” Abridged from Eric Hemery, High Dartmoor: Land and People (Robert Hale: London, 1983) 42.

Widecombe Church The Great Storm: Ball Lightning “Upon Sunday the 21. of October last, In the Parish Church of Withycombe in Devonshire neare Dartmoores, there fell in time of Divine Service a strange darkenesse, increasing more and more, so that the people there assembled could not see to reade in any booke, and suddenly in a fearefull and lamentable manner, a mighty thundering was heard, the ratling whereof did answer much like unto the sound and report of many great Cannons, and terrible strange lightening therewith greatly amazing and astonishing those that heard and saw it, the darkenesse increasing yet more, till they could not (in the interim) see one another; the extraordinarie lightning came into the Church so flaming, that the whole Church was presently filled with fire and smoke, the smell whereof was very loathsome, much like unto the sent of brimstone, some said they saw at first a great ball of fire come in at the window and passe thorough the Church, which so much affighted the whole Congregation that the most part of them fell downe into their seates, and some upon their knees, some on their faces, and some one upon another, with a great cry of burning and scalding they all giving themselves up for dead.” A True Relation Of Those Sad And Lamentable Accidents, Which Happened In And About The Parish Church of Withycombe in the Dartmoores on Sunday the 21. of October last 1638 (London: R. Harford; 1638) reprinted in Brooking Rowe ed., The Two Widecombe Tracts, 1638 giving a Contemporary Account of the great Storm, reprinted with an Introduction (Exeter: James G Commin, 1905).

Exact Location Unknown The Last Wolf “The arrival of the shotgun and the practising artilleryman, since the early-nineteenth century, have taken their toll of some species and changed the nesting habits of others. The red deer suffered planned extermination by the Duke of Bedford’s deer hounds in the 1780s and the last wolves in Britain are said to have been killed in the woods of Drewsteignton (north border-country) and Brimpts (Central Basin) early in the same decade.” Abridged from Eric Hemery, High Dartmoor: Land and People (Robert Hale: London, 1983) 42.

DFTVI 'Jan & The Devil' 2014

Theo Brown & The Folklore Of Dartmoor - Recording Part 2

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