Quotes by Queen Anne Boleyn of England

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

 

Black Broth of Sparta

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

Author’s Summary: Helen of Troy considers the famous black broth of Sparta.

Folly

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Author’s Summary: Princess Cassandra of Troy ponders on her folly of rejecting the Sun God Apollo’s acceptance for who she was, his care for her, and his love for her and her scorning him.

Considering Apollo’s Plea

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Author’s Summary: Apollo the Sun God pleads with Princess Cassandra of Troy to consider to accept him for who he is, care for him, and love him and become his lover.

Envy

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Author’s Summary: Princess Cassandra of Troy is envious of other people.

Deadly Fruit

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Author’s Summary: Princess Cassandra of Troy muses about apples.

Apples were a common fruit among the Greeks and the Trojans. Both countries ate them. Cassandra could see how the red color in apples was the same color as blood. Crisp and delicious did apples taste to her in her mouth when she devoured them. She enjoyed eating apples alongside bread, chunks of meat, and different other kinds of fruit to eat and fine wine to drink at meals. To end up hearing the sound of the crunch of the apple she ate under her teeth and feel the sweet stickiness of the apples on her fingers.  To get the juice from the apple to run down the sides of her mouth and her have to wipe the juice away with her hand. How Cassandra loved apples.

Common Legends about Queen Anne Boleyn of England

Written By: Katelyn Abbott

Here are some legends about Queen Anne Boleyn of England that I found interesting and I thought that other people might like to see.

A picture of Queen Anne Boleyn of England

 

 

- After King Henry VIII divorced Queen Katherine of Aragon (favorite daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella) and married Anne Boleyn, there was intense disgust in Spain, and to show their abhorrence, for years they carried round annually in procession a huge alligator (la tarasca, which means a serpent) and out of the back of this animal sprang a female figure signifying Boleyn. This figure they called the "Anavolena" (the B and V being almost interchangeable in Spanish). The idea, of course, was that the Protestantism personified by Anne Boleyn sprang from a foul beast of slime. The tarasca is shown to the curious, with the Anavolena complete, in the hall of the "Gigantes" which is approached from the gallery round the cloisters of the cathedral, the most interesting one in Spain.

 

-A legend about Anne Boleyn is that after her death hares ran wild which was seen as a symbol of witchcraft just as the candle on Katherine of Aragon’s tomb apparently flickered and burned blue for a few hours after Anne had been beheaded as a sign that she had been vindicated.

-Another legend is that Anne was secretly buried in Salle Church in Norfolk under a black slab near the tombs of her Boleyn ancestors and her body was said to have rested in an Essex church on its journey to Norfolk.

-A third legend about Anne is that her heart at her request was buried in Erwarton (Arwarton) Church, Suffolk by her uncle Sir Phillip Parker.

-In 18^th century Sicily the peasants of Nicolosi believed that Anne Boleyn, for having made King Henry VIII a heretic, was condemned to burn for eternity inside Mount Etna which was a legend that was often told for the benefit of foreign travelers.

-Many people have claimed to have seen Anne’s ghost at Blicking Hall, Hever Castle, Marwell Hall, Salle Church, and the Tower of London. The most famous account of a reputed sighting of Anne Boleyn’s ghost has been described by paranormal researcher Hans Holzer. In 1864 Major General J.D. Dundas of the 60^th Rifles regiment was quartered in the Tower of London. He had been looking out of the windows of his quarters were he noticed a guard below in the courtyard in front of the lodgings where Anne had been imprisoned at behaving strangely. He had appeared to challenge something which to the General “looked like a whitish, female figure sliding towards the soldier.” General J.D. Dundas had seen the guard charge the form with his bayonet and then he fainted.  He was saved only by the corroboration at the court-marital and the General’s testimony from a length prison sentence for having fainted while he was on duty. In 1960 Canon W.S. Pakenham-Walsh, vicar of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, reported having conversations with Anne.