Category: English Fairies

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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...

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Hob-Thrust

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,...

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Brumby Common

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...

Old Shock

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.