I saw mention of a thread for ghostly or Halloween stories so I thought I would start it off.

Legend has it that while the church tower stands, there will always remain six witches in Canewdon.
Every time a stone falls from the tower, one witch will die and another take her place.
When the last witch dies the tower will fall.

Or for others

The church tower was built buy Henry V to celebrate his victory at Agincourt. The churchyard, with its scattered, leaning gravestones and dense vegetation, possesses a strangely subdued atmosphere. It is said it is haunted by an old hag, who was long ago executed for witchcraft and who now returns on Halloween much to the consternation of the Essex Constabulary who cordon off surrounding roads to prevent the hordes of ghost hunters who have been known to make pilgrimages here on the night of nights. Canewdown was once renowned for its witches, and any woman seeking membership of the sinister sisterhood, must dance round the church twelve times at midnight, whereupon the devil will appear to perform the necessary initiation.

Message edited on: 10/28/2005 08:53

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html