Tudor Horror Stories - Ghost Stories, Executions and Halloween
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of my podcast I look at the history of Halloween, tells some stories of Tudor ghosts and also grizzly executions. So...sit back, relax and prepare to be transported back in time to Tudor England.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tudors Dynasty podcast. And now, Rebecca Larson. This is the Tudors Dynasty podcast. I'm your host, Rebecca Larson. And with this podcast, I share a variety of stories from the most well-known dynasty of them all, the Tudors. From simple stories about the people of the time to the drama that was the reign of Henry |
| 0:23.8 | the 8th, and of course, politics. |
| 0:27.7 | This show is presented to you commercial free thanks to my wonderful patrons. |
| 0:32.4 | A big thank you goes out to my newest patron, Heidi H. |
| 0:36.8 | All right, it's almost Halloween. |
| 0:38.9 | Who doesn't love a good, creepy ghost story? |
| 0:42.0 | When fall comes around, all I want to do is watch scary movies and rehash old ghost tales. |
| 0:49.5 | I'll give you all the creepy and scary as well as fascinating tales of horror at Tudor Court and a bit of history on Halloween. |
| 0:57.3 | When we return. The |
| 1:13.6 | The I'm going to be. I'm Yeah Welcome back. One of the most horrifically botched executions of the era was that of Margaret Pole, |
| 2:18.7 | Countess of Salisbury. The following poem was found in Margaret Pole's cell in the Tower of London. |
| 2:25.5 | For traitors on the block should die, I am no traitor, no, not I. My faithfulness stands fast and so. |
| 2:33.6 | Towards the block, I shall not go, nor make one step, |
| 2:37.3 | as you shall see. Christ in thy mercy, save thou me. Here's a quote from a guest post on my blog |
| 2:45.2 | by Alan Freer called The Last Plantagenet. On the morning of the 27th of May 1541, an elderly, stately woman |
| 2:53.7 | walked with dignity as befitted her birth from her cell in the Tower of London. Her name was Margaret |
| 3:00.4 | Pohl. Margaret had been informed earlier that day that she was to die. Her reply had been to say that no crime had been proved |
| 3:09.3 | against her. In an effort to play down the event, no wooden scaffold had been built. No large |
| 3:16.5 | crowd of onlookers were to be present. Only the mayor of London and a few dignitaries were to |
| 3:23.0 | witness Margaret's death. |
| 3:25.8 | Margaret knelt at a simple low block of wood, which was to be her final pillow, and commended |
| 3:31.8 | her soul to God. Turning to the thin line of bystanders, she asked them to pray for the |
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