Myths Of Great Britain.

[Minstrel]

Long ago before the invention of Drag-Queen story-hour, the electric car and TikTok, there was a kingdom in the British Isles that has expanded
and decreased as politics by the sword and the written-word dictated its growth. Northumbria (the people or province north of the Humber) has
had many rulers during its time and now is a shadow of it former self.

Hexham is a small market town close to Hadrian's Wall in this diminished region and owns a history that has dripped with the blood of feudal lords,
raids from the Border-Reivers and a murder of their own king. Along with this violent past, whispers of strange mysteries lurched across the wind
-blown moors, riddles that are still pondered on today and in the winter of 1904, one of these conundrums surfaced that could have echoes that
reverberated over sixty years later.


Northumbria, Then & Now.

With the first World War still a decade away, the Hexham Courant newspaper reported in early December of 1904 that a farmer from the nearby
hamlet of Allendale had began to stable his sheep due finding torn-apart remains of his animals in a nearby field. One of the sheep had been
disemboweled and another had been totally eaten leaving only its skull to be found. The terrified remainder of the ewes survived, although many
had been bitten around the neck and legs.

It was generally agreed that wolves had become extinct in England during the reign of Henry VII in 1509, but for the farmer discovering his livestock
on that cold winter's morning, those who had reached this conclusion didn't keep sheep here out in the rurals.

Then the sightings of a wolf began to be whispered amongst the communities of Allendale and Hexham.
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Excellent story-telling.
Is Northumbria known for a lot of Druidic activity?
...Or any other such religio-cultish history?
Wondering if the stone heads might have been "power objects" of some ancient 'shaman'...