Folktale Week : Underground

A chill and gloomy evening

As I tend to make my rounds

Shifting through each tombstone

That lies on sacred grounds

I was buried under cornerstone

A measure that must be took

To guard against the vagrant man

And most underhanded crook.

The Church Grim

According to folklore a church grim was a guardian spirit of an animal that would look over church grounds. Usually it would be buried underneath a church’s cornerstone.