Some Facts About BritainJoan o' the Wad (Joan the Wad), a female piskey (Cornish pixie), sometimes helpful and sometimes mischievious, around Polperro in Cornwall; ghostly, pipe-smoking Beefeaters in the Byward Tower of the Tower of London; the ghostly, faithful dog Gellert, seen in and around Bedgellert (Grave of Gellert), where it saved a boy from a wolf but was mistakenly killed when its master saw blood on its mouth; the spectres of Cavalier Kate Penfound, whose lover John was killed for being a Roundhead, and that of smuggler Arthur Penfound, in Penfound Manor, Cornwall; the Wish Hounds of the Wild Hunt that haunt Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor; phantoms of the Theatre Royal in York, including a Grey Lady and an actor who was killed in a duel; the corpse-eating kergrim in the churchyard of Launceston, Cornwall; how Mordred mortally wounded King Arthur at Slaughterbridge, Cornwall; the sound of bells, from a sunken ship, heard near Forrabury, Cornwall; and how the Wild Hunt, seen at Yeolmbridge, Cornwall, may take the soul of someone who sees it twice, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Liphook England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), the Grand Hyatt Macau, the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai, the Porto Bay Rio Internacional Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, the Villa D'Este on Lake Como, the beautiful and historic San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara and Christian's Hotel in Luoyang China. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. |