Maxwellton Cross Horseshoe

The latest mass execution for Witchcraft in Europe took place on this site, where 7 women were murdered for the "crime". Their "innate evil" was contained by the placement of a lucky horseshoe in the ground. Now, the horseshoe has been replaced and reanalysed as protecting not against the evil of the witches, but the evil that led to the deaths of these innocent women.

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