Obrick’s Colt

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  1. Ian Topham says:

    Re: Obrick’s Colt
    THE GHOST WORLD BY T. F. THISELTON DYER (1893)
    A Shropshire story tells – how two or three generations back there was a lady buried in her jewels at Fitz, and afterwards the clerk robbed her ; and she used to walk Cuthery Hollow in the form of a colt. They called it Obrick’s Colt, and one night the clerk met it, and fell on his knees, saying, "Abide, Satan! abide! I am a righteous man, and a psalm singer." ‘ The ghost was known as Obrick’s Colt from the name of the thief, who, as the peasantry were wont to say, ‘had niver no pace atter ; a was sadly troubled in his yed, and mithered.’