Tag: folk ballad
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The Mysterious Surrey Murder That Inspired a Folk Ballad
The Mystery on Leatherhead Common In the early 19th century, a grim discovery on Leatherhead Common, Surrey, captured the imagination of a rural community and would echo through local culture for generations. In January 1834, during a fox hunt, the hounds would not move from a clump of bushes. When the hunt paused, the assembled…
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The Surrey Mystery: How a 19th-Century Murder Became a Folk Ballad
The Mystery on Leatherhead Common In January 1834, a fox hunt on Leatherhead Common in Surrey took a grim turn when the hounds refused to move from a dense clump of bushes. What their master would soon uncover was not a quarry to be celebrated but the decomposed body of a woman, dumped and left…