English Folklore
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Don't think this belongs in Books and Literature as it's not necessarily always the written word, hopefully it can stay in here.
Anyway, I'm currently reading a book called Hollow Places about the tomb of a supposed dragon slayer in Hertfordshire and thought it might be interesting for people to share some stories, myths, legends, etc. from their local areas. Ancient, Victorian, modern, doesn't matter.
Either recount them yourself or stick a link up to some info. I reckon this kind of stuff is really cool, regardless of how much truth or lack thereof there is to any given story (it really doesn't matter does it?), it's a really interesting part of our cultural history.
I've said English in the title but I'm not fussed, maybe I'm just feeling patriotic.
Anyway, here's my contribution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girt_dog_of_Ennerdal...
There's another (more of a ghost story, really) that I found out about a few years ago after I'd been on a walk in Eskdale and we passed an abandoned farmhouse that gave me the creeps a bit. In fact the whole area had a weird vibe that day, not helped by the fact there are old corpse roads and stone circles in that area. Anyway, I must have got the name of the farm off a sign or something (it's not on Google maps) and when I was doing some research at home, I found an old story about a woman who took revenge on her husband (can't remember what for) by pouring hot fat down his neck while he was asleep, killing him. Farmhouse haunted, etc., etc. Wish I could remember more about that one.
Over to you.
Anyway, I'm currently reading a book called Hollow Places about the tomb of a supposed dragon slayer in Hertfordshire and thought it might be interesting for people to share some stories, myths, legends, etc. from their local areas. Ancient, Victorian, modern, doesn't matter.
Either recount them yourself or stick a link up to some info. I reckon this kind of stuff is really cool, regardless of how much truth or lack thereof there is to any given story (it really doesn't matter does it?), it's a really interesting part of our cultural history.
I've said English in the title but I'm not fussed, maybe I'm just feeling patriotic.
Anyway, here's my contribution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girt_dog_of_Ennerdal...
There's another (more of a ghost story, really) that I found out about a few years ago after I'd been on a walk in Eskdale and we passed an abandoned farmhouse that gave me the creeps a bit. In fact the whole area had a weird vibe that day, not helped by the fact there are old corpse roads and stone circles in that area. Anyway, I must have got the name of the farm off a sign or something (it's not on Google maps) and when I was doing some research at home, I found an old story about a woman who took revenge on her husband (can't remember what for) by pouring hot fat down his neck while he was asleep, killing him. Farmhouse haunted, etc., etc. Wish I could remember more about that one.
Over to you.
Edited by horsemeatscandal on Tuesday 28th March 17:34
Project Gutenberg is good for this type of (free) literature. Here's the results for a search for 'Lancashire' - quite a few books on myths, legends, traditions and general nonsense. There always seems to be a giant throwing rocks somewhere (Castlefield)
Lancashire
Lancashire
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