The Lightning Bolt

by Kate Forsyth

  Apart from its guns and hops, Horsmonden is also known for the gypsy horse fair which has been held there on the second Sunday in September since the twelfth century.

  The Grey Goose Feather

  This story appears in British Folk Tales and Legends – A Sampler, collected by Katharine Briggs, and published in 1977. She cites her source as WH Barrett, who heard the tale from an old fen-man, Chafer Legge, in 1900 and collected it for his Tales from the Fens in 1963. I have no idea if it is true or not. I like to think it is.