All Saint’s Parish Church, Swanton Morley
The 14th century All Saints’ Church, has a peculiar pieced of local folklore or tradition attached to it.
‘At All Saints church in Swanton Morley, it’s said that Satan can be summoned if you run round the church at midnight and then whistle through the keyhole, at which point the Dark Lord will appear.’
[Stacia Briggs and Siofra Connor ‘Have you seen a whistling ghost off the Acle Straight?’, Eastern Daily Express (26 May 2022)]
This was mentioned in notes collected in 1950 by the archaeologist and museum curator L V Grinsell (1907-1995), who had an interest in Folklore.
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