Herne is perhaps the most famous ghost in All of Haunted England. He haunts Windsor Park and dates back to the 14th Century. Legend says he was an excentric gamekeeper (imagine that an eccentric Englishman?)who dressed up to scare poachers. Somehow, he disgraced himself and hung himself on an old oak. As he was hanging, lightning hit the tree and now, dressed in his deerskin with his Antler mask, his ghost rides though Windsor Park. He is mentioned in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor So he was well known to the people in Tudor London. He is described as “…a wild, spectral object, possessing a slight resemblance to a human being, clad in the skin of a deer and wearing on its head a sort of helmet, formed of the skull of a stag, from which branched a large pair of antlers. It is surrounded by a blue phosphoric light.”
Interestingly, I have seen and photographed the blue light at haunted places. Maybe Herne is seeking forgiveness for his sins?
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Herne -England's ancient ghost
Herne is perhaps the most famous ghost in All of Haunted England. He haunts Windsor Park and dates back to the 14th Century. Legend says he was an excentric gamekeeper (imagine that an eccentric Englishman?)who dressed up to scare poachers. Somehow, he disgraced himself and hung himself on an old oak. As he was hanging, lightning hit the tree and now, dressed in his deerskin with his Antler mask, his ghost rides though Windsor Park. He is mentioned in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor So he was well known to the people in Tudor London. He is described as “…a wild, spectral object, possessing a slight resemblance to a human being, clad in the skin of a deer and wearing on its head a sort of helmet, formed of the skull of a stag, from which branched a large pair of antlers. It is surrounded by a blue phosphoric light.”
Interestingly, I have seen and photographed the blue light at haunted places. Maybe Herne is seeking forgiveness for his sins?
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