THE SILENT WOMAN

In the village of Slaithwaite in the Pennine hills there is a Inn called The Silent Woman, the sign of which displays a headless lady in 18th century garb. The Inn opened in 1782 and local legend claims that the first landlord cut off his wife's head in a murderous rage, whereupon her decapitated body ran outside into the path of a horse and cart. The horse is supposed to have bolted at the sight of the figure and since then all horses have refused to pass along that stretch of road