Early Christianity / English Folktales / Folklore / Folktales / Occult
by Ian · Published March 6, 2013 · Last modified December 3, 2018
Robert Fitz-Henry, Lord of Lathom (Born 1135) founded the Augustinian Burscough Priory around 1190. It was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII circa 1536 and today very little remains of the building.
Apparitions / Buried Treasure / Hauntings
by Ian · Published March 3, 2013 · Last modified December 3, 2018
There is nothing now standing of Sykes Lumb Farm though it probably stood near to the present day Sykes Holt. The farm dated back to the the War of the Roses (1455 – 1485) and gained a reputation for being haunted by a boggart that guarded over a hidden treasure. The story has been published several times.
The gyst-ale, or guising feast, was an annual festival of the town of Ashton-under-Lyne. It appears from the rental of Sir John de Assheton, compiled a.d. 1422, that a sum of twenty shillings was paid to him as lord of the manor for the privilege of holding this feast by its then conductors.
In 1911, the following description of this ancient Ashton custom appeared in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4.
English Folktales / Folklore / Folktales / Legends
by Ian · Published February 27, 2013 · Last modified December 2, 2018
By the entrance of Gorse Hill Park from Chester Road is a large boulder known as the Great Stone. This stone gave its name to Great Stone Road (beside which it stood until 1925) and the old Great Stone Farm. There are many stories, legends and theories concerning the origins of the stone.
Apparitions / Folklore / Folktales / Hauntings
by Ian · Published February 26, 2013 · Last modified November 18, 2018
In ‘Ancient Tales and Folk-lore of Japan’ (1918), Richard Gordon Smith gives the following account of the ghosts that are said to haunt Shozenji temple. The temple once stood near Fushimi, which is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Scottish Fairies / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published February 24, 2013 · Last modified November 3, 2018
ON a still Sabbath evening in summer, an old man was seated, reading his Bible in the open air, at a quiet spot upon the Ross-shire coast. A beautiful little lady, clad in green, drew near, and addressing him in a silvery voice, sought to know if for such as she Holy Scripture held out any hope of salvation.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Scottish Fairies / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published February 24, 2013 · Last modified November 19, 2018
NEAR the town of Aberdeen, in Scotland, lived James Campbell, who had one daughter, named Mary, who, was married to John Nelson, a young man of that neighbourhood.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Mermaids / Scottish Fairies / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published February 20, 2013 · Last modified November 28, 2018
‘THE old house of Knockdolion stood near the water of Girvan, with a black stone at the end of it. A mermaid used to come from the water at night, and taking her seat upon this stone, would sing for hours, at the same time combing her long yellow hair.
Folklore / Folktales / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published February 18, 2013 · Last modified December 18, 2018
THOM and Willie, two young fisher-mates of Lunna, in Shetland, were rivals for the hand of the fair Osla, daughter of Jarm. Now it so happened that, one October afternoon, they took their hand-lines and went out fishing together in their boat.
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