Witch Molly Leigh Grave, Burslem
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Witch Molly Leigh Grave, Burslem
Image: © Brian Deegan Taken: 17 Sep 2019
Molly Leigh died in 1746 and was buried in Burslem churchyard, but there were claims that her ghost haunted the town. Spencer—along with clerics from Stoke, Wolstanton, and Newcastle-under-Lyme—exhumed her body, opened the coffin, and threw in a still-living blackbird that had been her companion. They then reburied Molly in a north to south direction, at a right angle to all the other graves in the churchyard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Leigh
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Image Location
Latitude
53.042068
Longitude
-2.19609