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First Published April 3 1997 Michael Reid investigates the strange curse that every drinker dreads May your beer go cloudy We'll see you in court if it does, says landlord SPIRITS are low in an extraordinary battle which has erupted over a pub, its ghost and a magical spell threatening to cast a terrifying doom over a village. Wiltshire white witch Kevin Carlyon, fed up at the debate over whether Avebury's Red Lion pub still has a 300 year old ghost called Florrie, has pulled no punches in casting the ultimate spell on it ... cloudy beer. But now pub landlord Pat McCann has struck back with a warning .. give us bad beer and we'll see you in court. Florrie is a spook who insists in staying past closing time after being hurled down a well by her husband 300 years ago. But white witch Kevin Carlyon says he exorcised her last year. Swindon paranormal investigator Geoff Stanley insists Mr Carlyon doesn't know what he is talking about and is adamant Florrie's still around. And pub landlord Pat McCann is fed up with the whole business. 'We've got a spirit here, whether it's Florrie or not we don't know, but to be perfectly honest, we're not going to enter into any conversation with him on this matter now,' said Mr McCann. But Mr Carlyon insists it's too late and the pub's beer will solve the riddle of Florrie at the next full moon. Mr Carlyon has used the glow of the Hale-Bopp comet to cast a spell on the Red Lion 'to stop the mis-representation of a deceased person being used as a slimy publicity gimmick.' Mr Carlyon says if Mr McCann doesn't renounce his ghost by the full moon of April 22, the pub's food will go off and the beer will go cloudy. That could mean drinkers remembering one of the most important dates in the English calendar - St George's Day - for an altogether different reason. But Mr McCann has taken up the challenge. 'If by any chance it does we'll take legal action,' Mr McCann told the Adver. 'Of course it won't happen though.' The pints on April 23 are keenly awaited. 'Of course the spell will work, it will 100 per cent work,' said Mr Carlyon, because my power works. 'There's no ghost in that pub.' Mr Carlyon claims a wealth of experience in dishing out spells. His recent activities include ceremonies at Stonehenge and Avebury to prevent vandalism and an environmental ceremony at Studley Grange Farm, Lydiard Tregoze. However Swindon paranormal investigator Geoff Stanley said it was Mr Carlyon who was wrong. 'There are at least five other mediums who have been into that pub and claimed to be able to pick up on the energy being there after he claimed he'd removed it.' Maybe the beer will reveal all. Back to 1997 index |
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