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Tuesday, 02 December 2008
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Clent Hills & The Devil’s Huntsman
Ancient people believed that the Devil’s huntsman and his hellhounds went searching in the Clent Hills for damned souls.
Legend tells of a terrified fugitive who realised escape was hopeless, so stopped running, fell to his knees in the bracken and screamed for mercy.
He forced himself to look at some of the great black hounds surrounding him because he dared not gaze up into the awful face of their master who towered above him on a prancing, spectral steed.
Then this huntsman cracked his whip and the pack, their muzzles dripping with fire and hate, padded in on their victim - not for the kill but for the living death of eternal damnation.
Thus runs the ancient legend of Harry Cannab, Worcestershire's Devil's huntsman who captured damned souls on the Clent Hills and brought terror to countless generations of country people living in the north of the county.
Within living memory, residents throughout the Wyre Forest and Bromsgrove areas recalled being warned by their parents in childhood that Harry Cannab would come for them if they were naughty.
