#23 The Warning Voice: PEI Legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
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#23 The Warning Voice: 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 !
# 23 : The Warning Voice :
This story from pioneering days takes us to Warren Grove and to the site of a huge ancient Pine tree near the now overgrown and forgotten cemetery. Young Margaret MacCormack and two friends had taken a narrow winding path that went past the cemetery and the old giant pine tree. They went to pick beechnuts and hazel nuts. Their were nuts aplenty in the wooded area and once their salt bags were full they began to go back up the path with Margaretin the front, some 10 or 15 feet ahead of the others. They had passed the cemetery and were approaching the tree when Margaret and the others heard a strange voice and looking ahead they spied a stranger, an old woman dressed in pure white clothing with long black hair in great masses over her shoulders. She had her arms around the tree ansd she was saying over and over " Don't come any nearer children " . They stopped and a moment later the old woman released the tree.. in a few seconds the mighty tree crashed to the ground across the trail a few feet from where Margaret was standing.. the woman vanished.
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