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The vampire story Croglin Grange is one of the best known in the United Kingdom .In fact, no one can place in a concrete way where their roots sink.There are those who say that it has its beginning in the seventeenth century, but the most places this incredible story in the mid-nineteenth century.
Every legend has in its bases a concrete origin, a real fact that inflames the fantasy and sometimes, the terror.What we present today in Mysterious has the scent of those vampire stories that are told on stormy nights , on cold winter evenings where the wind blows the crystals of your room delicately.
As if something or someone asked to enter...
The Vamberland Cumberland
This story is in Cumberland, just to the northwest of England. This is where the Croglin farm is located, a respectable building located on the outskirts and originally belonging to the Fisher family, however, the marriage was somewhat larger and he wanted to move to warmer, less humid lands, so until they found a good buyer, they decided to rent the property.
They didn't have much luck on that first attempt, because after their departure, the house spent a whole winter in loneliness without anyone inhabiting it.Now, with the arrival of good weather the Fisher found new tenants.They were the Cranswells, three young brothers: Edward, Michael and Amelia.
The arrival of the two boys and the girl was an event in the region, they integrated well, and the summer passed as a sigh of tranquility and harmony.But with the arrival of the first winds, things changed.
The cold was very intense on the farm, as well as the damp, and the bad smell.One night, the young Amelia returned from a meeting in the Church and He paused a few moments to see the cemetery from afar.There was something different, something that caught his attention: a hole in the ground of it.It was not a pit for a coffin, but a hole similar to a deep burrow.
I hurry his steps, but even so, he soon became aware that he was being persecuted.He entered the house quickly, and went to bed, looking for shelter and oblivion of the bed.It was midnight, and something interrupted his rest: it was a squeak, something sharp that damaged even his hearing. Someone was scratching the windowpane. When I looked over there, I couldn't even shout, neither move nor think...There was a man with a wax face, red eyes, and an open mouth...He was a being halfway between the human and the animal. And he was hungry.
When the Cranswell brothers entered the room when they heard some crystals breaking, they arrived in time to see a strange creature similar to a gigantic insect, leaning over Amelia.He was feeding on his blood.
One of them managed to reach with a shot by being , causing a leg injury.After the impact, neighbors began to arrive surroundings, witnessing the escape of the vampire.I tried to hunt him down, but it was impossible, he disappeared like the fog in the first rays of the morning.
Amelia was treated, and tells the story that despite If I remain alive, I am so weakened that the brothers were forced to move to Switzerland to enter the hospital in .
Everything would have remained here, but the legends often have often that heroic component that he likes so much, and the story of Croglin Grange also has it.The Cranswell brothers re-rented the farm the following year, just at the end of the summer.But they were prepared and sought revenge.Amelia Cranswell held a meeting in the village.In the church itself I inform the neighborhood that they should protect themselves , and that they should hunt a being who lived in Cumbria and who slept in a burrow...
That was when Amelia explained her experience and where her first encounter with the Vampire: in the cemetery, and not in a pit, but in a kind of hole as a passage that apparently, opened the being with the arrival of winter...and when a victim captured his interest, as was the case of Amelia.
It tells the story that they waited several days until the autumn brought the first winds, the first cold.And that every day they attended every change in the disposition of the cemetery. Until it happened, until that the burrow opened.They went for the one protected by the sun of dawn, withdrawing land and submerging in that small cave until discovering a kind of very old coffin, and battered.When they opened it, they found the being.To the vampire.The stench was unbearable.On his leg, he still had the open wound from the shot that one of the Cranswells gave him last year, a void in the flesh without blood, without life.
All the neighbors agreed to cut off his head and burn it later, scattering his ashes at a crossroads.There were no more victims, and no sinister burrow was ever opened again in any graveyard …
The Croglin Rage farm exists and is the one that illustrates this article .Even today this legend is still being spoken, although for many, it was only the «exaggerated story »Of a sudden attack of a man on a girl on a winter night, and how his brothers took revenge on him. It has never been clear...
The This story was first published in 1929, under the authority of Montague Summers, an English clergyman.
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