The Gypsy Curse of Levens Hall
This Elizabethan house, which stands south of Kendal in Cumbria, has a variety of ghosts, including a lady in pink who materializes only when children are present, a small black dog and also the phantom of a gypsy woman who laid a curse on the family living there.
Turned away when begging for bread, she cursed the family with the words ‘no son will inherit the house until the River Kent ceases to flow and a white fawn is born’
Oddly the inheritance of the hall did indeed pass from relative to relative rather than from father to son until 1913 – when an albino deer was born in the deer park belonging to the estate and the nearby River Kent froze and ceased to flow as the winter was so bitterly cold,
With the terms of the curse fulfilled a member of the family finally inherited the hall from his father!
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Posted on Sat 11th Jul 2009 21:31:00