During my research, I also stumbled upon the following idea: that, on bright, sunny days, the bog water might have been clear enough for people to see the bodies thrown in, some of which were staked down to keep them in one place, and that people may have regularly visited these bodies because they were considered holy or otherwise imbued with power. All of this is utterly fascinating and, in my view, utterly Gothic: violence inflicted upon the young and the disabled and mentally ill, secrets we will never unravel, the possibility that these bodies would flicker in and out of view and thus
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