STAY off the moors, yokels have warned.
The discovery of mutilated animal carcasses in rural Gloucestershire has prompted local speculation that tonight’s full moon may be an evil one.
Club-footed farm hand Tom Logan, who knows of such things, said: “What lurks in yonder darkness is neither man, nor beast. It is a thing of the devil that loves naught but blood, and has no place on this earth.”
Logan, whose grandmother Peg had the second sight, added: “Only a fool would venture out tonight.”
The alleged werewolf is most probably the result of a curse placed on a local aristocrat by a vengeful witch.
Barmaid Emma Bradford said: “The old folk reckon his lordship’s seventh son – no, I am not to speak of this, not to outsiders.
“You must leave now. Drink your drink and go.”
Apprentice blacksmith Stephen Malley has to cross the moors tonight if he is to catch the morning train to London.
He said: “I feel a certain amount of trepidation, yet I have little choice but to travel this evening.
“I have promised to buy a Ministry of Sound Beach House CD for my cousin Nell’s birthday.”
