Sweep
Sweep works with Marie on communication. He is always about even when Marie isn't working. He likes to chat.
He first made himself known to Marie in circle in the early 80’s, the circle named him Sweep because he doesn’t like his real name.
He tells anyone who will listen that he lived at the time of Jack the Ripper. He also tells Marie that they walked the earth plain at the same time; this is often the case with mediums and their guides.
Marie was once regressed and recognised Sweep. Marie was a witness to one of the Rippers murders which is something that she doesn't like to think about. Sweep was, as his name,suggests a chimney sweeps boy.
His age has been put to be between 10 and 12 years old, and he lived on the streets of London, stole to eat who slept with the horses on a hessian sack filled with straw..
He's never worn shoes and doesn't like Marie to wear them when he entrances her. He looked after a little girl Joanna. She wasn’t his sister; she just latched on to him. She died of diphtheria, but Sweep doesn’t call it that he says the s***t’s.
He passed a short time later also with the s***t’s. When he woke up on the other side he wouldn’t believe he was dead because he could still think and feel. Joanna came to greet him, but he kept sending her away, he thought she was a ghost.
Some time passed and he tried to continue normal life, he couldn’t understand why people wouldn’t talk to him, not even his old boss The Sweep. He was upset when he found a new boy was being sent up his chimneys.. So when Annie (his name for Joanna) as he called her came back he decided to listen to what she had to say. She told him that he had died and he needed to go with her to decide what he was going to do next, so he did. He found himself in front of his life on earth much like a mirror “The mirror of life “he calls it.
He was shown where he did well and where he’d not done so well. He was told he could go back to the earth plain and try again. He asked “can I 'ave me barra and me cap?” “No” because when you go back you will be forward in time. “I aint doing ‘hat.” he said. He was told there is another way? Be a spirit guide. “A wot?” he asked. A spirit guide. You would be able to learn with the person by their mistakes”.
This took some thinking about and much time passed. He decided to give it a go, and he was paired up with Marie, however it was some time before Marie recognised him as a spirit guide.