Myths and Stories
There is a tunnel that runs from Main House leading to The Duke's Head, a pub near the school. It has been suggested that it was created by the Kirkby's during the Civil War along with several Priest Holes to protect them from the Parliamentarians.
Stanbridge used to have a large wooden Buddhist temple in the grounds known as the 'Burmese Temple' erected without the use of any nails, but by interlocking hinges. It had been bought from the Great Exhibition and re-erected near the Bottom Lake but was burnt down by a pupil in 1983, who was then expelled.
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Famous quotes containing the words myths and, myths and/or stories:
“... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us—extraordinary.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.
“Wags try to invent new stories to tell about the legislature, and end by telling the old one about the senator who explained his unaccustomed possession of a large roll of bills by saying that someone pushed it over the transom while he slept. The expression “It came over the transom,” to explain any unusual good fortune, is part of local folklore.”
—For the State of Montana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)