Bumps in the night
It would appear from recent conversations that there are many country folk with tales to tell of odd happenings. Some defy explanation and are perhaps quite rightly dismissed as coincidence. BB quoted an example some time ago of a claw-shaped birthmark on a child, following a confrontation between the pregnant mother and a large cockerel.
“Explain that away if you can,” wrote BB in Shooting Times, “and yet, I put it down to coincidence.”
There is nothing else for it but to accept it as just that — unless you believe in the supernatural. And since I’ve lived on the edge of a
