Fairies Holt
‘According to a writer in the Stamford Mercury, June 7th, 1889, fairies were once to be met with in “Fairies’ Holt,” a field between Bag-Enderby and Somersby,” where the ploughmen in the old days...
‘According to a writer in the Stamford Mercury, June 7th, 1889, fairies were once to be met with in “Fairies’ Holt,” a field between Bag-Enderby and Somersby,” where the ploughmen in the old days...
English Fairies / Fairies / Folklore / Hauntings
by Ian · Published March 5, 2021 · Last modified March 5, 2024
According to ‘The Folklore Of Lincolnshire by Mabel Peacock (December 1900).’ “The Scotch Brownie and the Yorkshire Robin-RoundCap have at least one kinsman in the parts of Lindsey. He is known as ther Hob-Thrust,...
English Fairies / Fairies / Folklore
by Ian · Published March 22, 2020 · Last modified March 22, 2024
According to ‘The Folklore Of Lincolnshire by Mabel Peacock (December 1900).’ At the present time fairies are seldom heard of, but in earlier days it was not unusual to encounter them, though they do...
English Fairies / English Folktales / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales
by Ian · Published January 16, 2020
According to Sarah Hewett in her ‘Nummits and Crummits’ published in (1900), ‘As a gentleman, late at night, was driving across the moor to Chagford, a village in mid-Devon, he was startled by the...
English Fairies / English Folktales / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales
by Ian · Published April 2, 2019 · Last modified April 2, 2020
In her ‘Some West Sussex Superstitions Lingering in 1868’, Mrs Latham recounts the following story. ‘There is an unromantic fairy-tale told in our nurseries the scene of which is laid in West Sussex, how,...
Ancient Sites / English Fairies / English Folktales / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Wells
by Ian · Published July 7, 2018 · Last modified July 7, 2019
At Bothel, in the parish of Torpenhow, a stream rises from a well which supplies the village with water. The proverbial “oldest inhabitant” asserted that this stream ran blood on the day of King...
Ancient Sites / Earth Works / English Fairies / English Folktales / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales
by Ian · Published April 6, 2018 · Last modified April 6, 2020
‘There is a tradition in the parish of Pulborough of a fairy’s funeral, and the very place of burial is pointed out to you. It is at the top of a green mound, known...
Apparitions / Black Dogs / English Fairies / Fairies / Folklore / Hauntings
by Ian · Published May 20, 2016 · Last modified December 14, 2018
The following is extracted from County Folklore: Suffolk (1893). ‘In Melton stands the ‘Horse & Groom’ inn – in the days of toll-bar gates (thirty years ago) occupied by one Master Fisher.
English Fairies / Fairies / Folklore
by Ian · Published May 20, 2016 · Last modified December 15, 2018
According to folk tradition a variation of Will o’ the Wisp referred as the Lantern Man can be seen on Wicken Fen enticing people into the reed beds where they drown.
Black Dogs / English Fairies / Fairies / Folklore
by Ian · Published May 20, 2016 · Last modified December 14, 2018
According to County Folklore: Suffolk (1893) ‘Old Shock is a mischievous goblin, in the shape of a great dog, or of a calf, haunting highways and footpaths in the dark.
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