St. Stephen's Church in Harlow. Legend holds that the foundations of the church were originally laid upon the remnants of an old Roman temple at which nameless rites had once been performed; legend also maintains that during the 17th Century members of the Horsingdon coven would meet in the church's crypt, where they would make the Sign of the Goat, utter the Three Unspeakable Names, and call forth the Black Man of the Sabbat. That dread entity, it is said, always leaves its mark at the sites of its manifestation; indeed, there have been regular reports of the smell of sulpher in the crypt, and of a tall, shadowy shape which haunts the nave of St. Stephen's church - and which has been known to induce madness in those who have had the misfortune to encounter it.
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