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Lantern Wood sat half a mile beyond the Iron Bridge, looming dense and dark on the lefthand side of the road. Alice parked the SUV and cut across an open stretch of grass where the Witching Circle lay. It was one of Mayflower's few local tourist attractions. A circle in the ground made of rock and lined around the edges by large, smooth pebbles fixed in place. Maintained by the county tourist board, they talked it up to attract tourist dollars. Accounts varied around who created the Witching Circle. And why. Some said it was a place where local witches used to practice black magic ceremonies. Others claimed it was where farmers burned them at the stake, for cursing their harvests. What historians did agree on, was the original position of the circle. Until recent decades, it had been p
