#22 Milton Fire Ball: PEI Legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
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#22 Milton Fire Ball: PEI Legends and Lore series
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"They have tales ." Oh yes they do ! P.E. Islanders love to share tales and there is no shortage of yarns both short and tall to tell. The history of this tiny island is replete with strange occurrences and each seems to spawn one or more explanations to account for them. Ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night are commonplace in this lore. The stranger the actual events the more detailed the often supernatural story around it. Some of these tales go back centuries. Loss and gain, treasure, triumph, disaster, birth, life and death all feature prominently. Not many who live here doubt the existence of spirits and ' haunts' , nor the places they can be found. Forerunners, omens of all kinds, even Satan himself often show up in these accounts.
I have lived here too long to dismiss all these tales as fiction, nor the beliefs that they encompass. I know too many perfectly sober honest people who have had ' strange ' experiences to doubt the veracity of what they say happened.
This series contains a variety of such tales I gleaned from several Island folklore books, old newspaper articles, a few first-person accounts and even an on-line site or two. None are original to me and I certainly wish to thank all those who gathered the stories. I have tried to place the caches in the communities and, if possible, on or close to the exact sites of the described events. For some of these stories you would NOT find me at the exact site late at night. Not a chance. I hope you enjoy both the story and the going to where it happened !
# 22 Milton Fire Ball :
Tom and Jerry had spent a pleasant enough day in Charlottetown before they hooked their two-wheeled cart to the horse and began their journey home to Milton. An almost full moon was in the sky and the two old men had a 2 gallon jug of rum between them on the seat as they loafed along the lonely road. They drank by turns, with much talk and laughter as the rum worked in their brains. Neither was in any hurry to get home as the night was pleasant. They were well in their cups as they passed the halfway point of their journey near the river... then suddenly a ball of fire about the size of a dinner cup appeared beside them on the road. It passed by them and between theh orses ears going ahead of them. The two men jumped from the cart and hid in nearby bushes until the light was gone. As they crawled back up onto the road the light suddenly reappeared and ' attacked ' the cart and horse, burning both up.. it wove a ring of fire around the two men trapping them...They were forced to watch as their cart and horse were utterly consumed by the fire! Finally the ring of fire faded out and the two men fled down the road as fast as their wobbly legs could carry them.
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