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Quote: zooo @ September 9 2011, 10:52 AM BST

I suppose superstition, but I just mean it makes me feel all wrong if I spin around only one way. So I have to spin back the other way as well.

When we were little we thought (for some reason) if you ran around a church 10 times and looked through the keyhole you'd see the vicar chopping peoples' heads off...

(It didn't work. Although the time we tried it my friend fell over and cut her knee open half way through. So maybe it would have.)

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Wow! We never hung about churches enough to build up urban legends, myths and superstitions.

Hang on, my school was next door to a church... carry on!

Quote: Leevil @ September 9 2011, 12:54 PM BST

Hang on, my school was next door to a church... carry on!

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Heh, so was mine. A haunted one, natch.
Not the same church as the murdering vicar one though.
Ah, churches. Such fun!

I still have dreams and occasional nightmares about that church. Because I had to walk through in to get back and from school. So it's ingrained in my mind.

Oooh, fun. We used to play in the nice tree-filled graveyard a lot, more in a girly secret-garden manner than a spooky ghost hunting manner though. Don't know why the vicar didn't chuck us out.

We never played in the graveyard. It was too full of graves (oddly enough). There was nowhere to play and I was too lazy for hurdles. I can never remember this church being open, which added to the scariness.

Yikes. Maybe it only opened AT MIDNIGHTTTTTTTTTT.

The village church was opposite my mum's school - a big single classroom job. My great great great grandparents are buried there (at the church, not the school) as well a good many relatives since, my mother included. I was baptized there, my parents were married there (though not in that order) so the church and my family will forever be linked.

Legend has it that when there's a full moon and the wind is in the right direction that I can be found several miles away with my feet up watching the snooker.

Nice one!

When's the snooker back on BBC?

(In TV schedule terms, not full moon and wind direction terms )

Be blowin' in from west after 2 blue moons.

Thanks, I'll put that in my diary

I etched it in some wood for you, Miss.

Do I need to run around a church seven times and summon a demon to interpret the ancient language in which it's written?

I might just check Radio Times

That might work too.