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Shropshire’s lewd ladies
Do you know the secret of Shropshire’s lewd ladies?
Do you know the secret of Shropshire’s lewd ladies?
If you take a look over the doorways, or in the dark corners of your local church you might find a little stone carving of a “a Sheela-na-gig”.
But what are they, and what do they signify? Folklorist and social historian Pamela Thom-Rowe lets Genevieve Tudor into the secret.