Ancient Sites / Apparitions / Cryptozoology / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Haunted Pubs / Hauntings / Legends / Occult
by Ian · Published March 22, 2020 · Last modified December 19, 2021
The ‘International Fortean Film Festival’ is run by filmmakers and people with a passion for all things weird and paranormal, for filmmakers and people with a passion for all things weird and paranormal… ABOUT...
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...
Fairies / Folklore / Hauntings / Manx Fairies
by Ian · Published April 22, 2019 · Last modified April 22, 2021
The following extract is from an Isle of Man Examiner article entitled ‘Port St Mary’s Two Ghosts’ (Published, 21 may 1937). The full article looks at the decline of boat or ship building in...
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,...
The following description of Korrigan’s as a type of water sprite was published in ‘Pictures & Legends From Normandy & Bittany by Thomas and Katharine MacQuoid (1881)’ while they were referring to the fountains...
‘A mermaid was cast ashore by the sea in the country of Alba. One hundred and ninety five feet was her length, eighteen feet was the length of her hair, seven feet was the...
LONG hundreds of years ago there was a witch in the island who made herself the finest and cleverest-looking young woman in it. Her like for beauty was never before seen in this mortal...
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.
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