Meg Shelton

One of the most strangest accounts of the 17th century England is about a woman named Meg Shelton. In her life she was a witch but in death she's a zombie. Her grave is marked with a heavy block of granite as this was believed to prevent her from getting out undead, as this is what she used to do! But despite this she found a way to crawl up through the soil around the block to rise from the grave. Many people have seen her zombie walking around even to this day!

Her name is Margery (or "Meg" for short) Shelton. It's not clear when she was born and if she ever married and had children. She lived in a small village named Catforth in Woodplumpton, a district of Preston city, Lancashire. It's known that she died in 1705, and buried in the graveyard of St. Anne's Church in Woodplumpton. Stories and reports made during her lifetime only indicate her activities but none said anything about her family. Also she was nicknamed "The Woodplumpton Witch" and "The Fylde Hag".

She was troublesome and very unpopular within the community.  One of the things she got up to was theft. She liked stealing milk from cows until one day a farmer caught her at it red handed. Also she used magic to shapeshift into animals and inanimate objects so that she could steal things. She disguised her ceramic jug as a live goose to help her steal milk. Another time she turned herself into a rabbit and got bitten by a dog, then afterwards she always walked with a limp. Meg entered a barn and turned herself into a sack of corn, so that she could help herself to free food. The suspicious farmer poked her with a fork until she let out a scream. 

The witch of Woodplumpton was gruesome and liked boiling animals to eat with parsley and thyme. It's said that she was "trapped" by a girl who stuck bodkins attached with looms on her as she was sitting quietly in a chair at home. This here indicates that the woman was often bullied and assaulted by members of the village, and that she might also have been up to mischief with them. She was sent to trail for witchcraft, but was given brutal torture, She was then killed by being crushed to death between a wall and a big wooden barrel. She can't rest!

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