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Pocahontas, the legendary Native American daughter to a Chief was buried in St. George's Church in Gravesend.
Captain John Smith leader of the Jamestown English settlement in Virginia, told how Pocahontas prevented his death from beating by throwing herself across his body. She was also known for visiting Jamestown and providing food for the settlers.Pocahontas was later captured by the English, and taught Christianity, being baptised as Rebecca. She married English settler John Rolfe, leading to peace between her tribe and the settlers, with whom she had a son Thomas Rolfe. They visited England travelling to Plymouth and being feted as a Princess in London and meeting the King. On the return voyage to America they only made it down the Thames to Gravesend where gravely ill Pocahontas died. Today a statue to Pocahontas stands in the graveyard of St. George's, though the exact location of her grave is unknown. She also lived at Rolfe Hall in the Heacham, Norfolk. See on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=American_Indian_Princess - Pocahontas'_final_resting_place Wulvers are legendary creatures that have the head of a wolf and the body of a human covered in fur.
Wulvers lived across the Shetland Islands, and were noted for their kindly actions of guiding lost travellers home and leaving fish on the windowsills of poor families. They only caused harm to humans when harmed themselves. Wulvers fished by the banks of rivers on flat stones known as Wulver Stones. Wulvers are not werewolves as they haven't changed from humans, The ancient Celts believed that they were the link between man and wolf. See direct on Mapolah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Wulvers,_Shatland_Islands At Beetham in Cumbria are found the Fairy Steps between two sheer faces of limestone, if you can ascend or descend the steps without touching the sides the fairies will grant you your wish.
he fairies can be seen by those who possess the second sight using the steps. Go direct to on the Mapolah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Fairy_Steps,_Beetham Beneath the waters of Lough Erne lay the kingdom of the Fin Bolg whose King possessed a golden apple bearing crystal tree in his pleasure garden.
Conn-Edda was given an obligatory quest to retrieve three golden apples from the tree, a black steed and a hound with supernatural powers from the underwater kingdom. Conn-edda succeeded and planted the apples which gave healing powers to the land and led to the fertility of his own kingdom. Go direct to the map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Conn-Edda_&_the_Golden_Apples_of_Lough_Erne Pocahontas, the legendary Native American daughter to a Chief was buried in St. George's Church in Gravesend.
Captain John Smith leader of the Jamestown English settlement in Virginia, told how Pocahontas prevented his death from beating by throwing herself across his body. She was also known for visiting Jamestown and providing food for the settlers.Pocahontas was later captured by the English, and taught Christianity, being baptised as Rebecca. She married English settler John Rolfe, leading to peace between her tribe and the settlers, with whom she had a son Thomas Rolfe. They visited England travelling to Plymouth and being feted as a Princess in London and meeting the King. On the return voyage to America they only made it down the Thames to Gravesend where gravely ill Pocahontas died. Today a statue to Pocahontas stands in the graveyard of St. George's, though the exact location of her grave is unknown. She also lived at Rolfe Hall in the Heacham, Norfolk. See on the Mapolah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=American_Indian_Princess - Pocahontas'_final_resting_place Sightings of a dragon at Henham-on-the-Mount were reported in a pamphlet of 1669 - "The Flying Serpent or Strange news out of Essex". Numerous locals were said to have attested to the sighting and further sightings continued after the pamphlet!
Carrickfergus Castle, County Antrim, is a Norman castle overlooking Belfast Lough, besieged by Scots, Irish, English and French.
Originally surrounded on three sides by water. In what was known as Carrickfergus Bay, the legendary King of the Dal Riata, Fergus the Great, grounded his ship on a rock, which became known as the Cairn or Carrick of Fergus, giving the town its name. Also the location of US naval hero John Paul Jones' capture of HMS Drake from the Royal Navy during the American War of Independence. Fantastic Norman Castle dating back to the end of the 11th Century overlooking Manorbier beach.
Birthplace of historic scholar Gerald of Wales 1146 -1223, who said of Manorbier - 'In all the broad lands of Wales, Manorbier is the most pleasant place by far', he may have been biased but it is difficult to disagree, it is certainly a jewel in Wales' crown. Lyme Regis is famous for its Fossils, and Mary Anning (1700 - 1847) was the pioneering female fossil hunter - the 'Princess of Paleontology' - a Jurassic Princess!
She discovered the first ichthyosaur (aged 12), first plesiosaur and first British pterosaur. Her range of scientific discoveries did not gain her the credit they deserved, in the male dominated scientific community at the time. She took on the family fossil business, selling samples to the King of Saxony, and for display at the forerunner to the New York Academy of Sciences, the Lyceum of Natural History. She is buried in St. Michael's church, where there is a window dedicated to her. In 2010 the Royal Society placed her in a list of the ten British women who had most influenced science. |
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