As everyone knows, Cambridge is a town famous for its majestic architecture of buildings and universities. But stronger that the beauty emanated from this town, it is architecture imposes a particular atmosphere. The sky is dark, the weather is wet and the gothic and medieval style procure a sudden feeling of coldness, making us realised the heavyweight of its history.
Let me now talk about the legends of Cambridge.
The fist one I want to relate is about the ghost of Peterhouse.
Perterhouse, a small college in Cambridge, a night, in 1998, a member of the kitchen staff was puting away his stuff to going back home when he heard a noise in the combination room. He went there to see what was happening and suddently, he saw the ghost of a ex-treasurer of the college, Dawe, who had hanged himself exactly in this room. His body was buried at the north of the college but his soul will always stayed in this walls.
This story was a bit scary don’t you think? If you believe in paranormal facts, I advise you to not cross Arbury Road, especially in this season. A local tale says that a damned shuck is in this street and bring ill luck to all person which see it.
But do not think that every legends of Cambridge are so dark, some of them could be nice to imagine as the one of the lions, guardians of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
The local belief says that at midnight, while everyone is sleeping, the two lion’s statues are awake and leave their post to drink in the gutter and then, come back to their plinch until the next midnight.
In each old town, we can hear some legends as this ones, but in Cambridge, you can feel it, it is in the air.
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As everyone knows, Cambridge is a town famous for its majestic architecture of buildings and universities. But stronger than the beauty THAT EMANATES FROM this town, IT IS its architecture THAT imposeS a particular atmosphere. The sky is dark, the weather is
wet and the gothic and medieval style procure [CHANGE THIS WORD] a sudden feeling of coldness, makING us realisE the heavy weight of its history.
Let me NOW TALK about the legends of Cambridge.
The fist one I want to relate is about the ghost of Peterhouse.
PerterhousE, a small college in Cambridge, a night, in 1998, a member of the kitchen staff was puting away his stuff to go back home WHEN he heard a noise in the combination room. He went there to see what WAS HAPPENING/HAD HAPPENED happened and suddently, he saw the ghost of a ex-treasurer of the college, Dawe, who HAD hanged himself exactly in this room. IHIS body was buried at the north of the college but HIS soul will always stay in thESE walls.
This story was a bit scarY don’t you think? If you believe in paranormal factS, I advise you to not cross Arbury Road, especially in this season. A local tale says that a damned shuck [???] is in this street and bring ill luck to all person which see it.
But do not think that every legends of Cambridge are so dark, some of them could be nice to imagine as the one of the lions, guardians of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
The local belief says that at midnight, while everyone is sleeping, the two lion STATUES are awake and leave their post to drink in the gutter and then, come back to their PLINTH until the next midnight.
In each old town, we can hear some legends as this ones, but in Cambridge, you can feel it, it is in the air.
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