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Thread #102423   Message #2077602
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish
15-Jun-07 - 05:28 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Appleby Horse Fair: A Tradition Too Far?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Appleby Horse Fair: A Tradition Too Far?
>>Ms Cornish is fond of relating the tale of a drunken teenager who rampaged around Sidmouth with a sword.<<

A young local lad died two years ago, on the Friday before Folk Week, after being cut down with a Samurai Sword, in Sidmouth High St. at 2am one morning, by a man in his 40's. His family are still in deep grief today.

You may think it appropriate to use something so horrendous to have a sick dig Diane. I do not.

You belittle yourself ever further in my eyes, as do your 'mates' above.

And now, back to the Horse Fair...