Tehi Tegi
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...
Category: Fairies
Bothel, Torpenhow
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...
Roxby Shagged Foal
Goosey Lane, or Boggart Lane, near Roxby, in Lincolnshire, has … a spectre of …… [a shagged-foal], or had as late as the third decade of this century [1800s].— Antiquary, vol. xxxiil, p. 75....
Kirton-in-Lindsey Shagged Foal
A manifestation supposed to be a shagged-foal was seen near Kirton-in-Lindsey in a donkey-like form some fifty or fifty-five years ago [i.e. about 1842-7]. — Antiquary, vol. xxxiil, p. 75. [Examples of Printed Folk-lore...
Barton-upon-Humber Tatter Foal
Barton-upon-Humber, ‘The devil appears to persons there in the shape of a ragged colt called ‘tatter-foal.’ — Thompson, p. 736. [Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning Lincolnshire by Eliza Gutch, Mabel Peacock (1908)]
Barnoldby-le-Beck Shag-foal
‘An old lady used to talk of a mysterious phantom like an animal of deep black colour, which appeared before belated travellers. On hearing that we had been attacked at midnight by a large...
Park Mound (Park Mount)
‘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...
Melton Shock
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.
Wicken Fen Lantern Man
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.
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.
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