Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Manx Fairies / Manx Folktales
by Daniel Parkinson · Published September 28, 2009 · Last modified December 11, 2018
The Buggane is a fearsome supernatural creature from the rich folklore of The Isle of Man. It appears in literature in various forms, usually having the power to shape shift. In one of its forms it is associated with water, and is similar to the Cabbyl-Ushtey the Manx Water Horse.
Ancient Sites / Early Christianity / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Manx Fairies / Manx Folktales
by Daniel Parkinson · Published August 18, 2009 · Last modified December 11, 2018
St Trinian’s church is the ruined shell of a 14th Century building standing at the foot of Mount Greeba on the Isle of Man. The chapel was the haunt of a Buggane: a fearsome creature of Manx folklore that appears in a number of folktales from the island.
English Folktales / Folklore / Folktales / Hauntings / Occult / Occult Biographies / Occult Traditions / Witchcraft
by Ian · Published August 15, 2009 · Last modified December 31, 2018
In St John’s graveyard, Burslem, can be found the last resting place of Molly Leigh, a local woman accused of being a witch but dying before she could be brought to trial. Her body is the only one positioned North to South, putting it at a right angle to every other grave in the cemetery. The story of Molly Leigh is a mixture of fact and folklore that has grown over the years.
Hauntings / Scottish Folktales
by Daniel Parkinson · Published August 3, 2009 · Last modified January 11, 2019
Duntulm Castle is now a ruined shell of its former glory as a MacDonald stronghold, its walls disintegrating year by year against the constant onslaught of the Atlantic winds. The site traditionally has a long precedence as a defendable stronghold: there may have been an Iron Age, and a Viking presence here, situated on the rocky promontory of steep cliffs overlooking the sea.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Other Mysteries / Scottish Fairies / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published July 27, 2009 · Last modified December 17, 2018
On 14th July 1990, eighty-eight bird watchers got off a ferry organised by the Orkney Heritage Society and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at the uninhabited Eynhallow Island. Only eighty-six returned for the journey back, which sparked a huge search and rescue operation involving the police and coastguard.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Welsh Fairies / Welsh Folktales
by Ian · Published July 23, 2009 · Last modified December 9, 2018
The River Honddu (Afon Honddu) runs through the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons starting at the Vale of Ewyas and said, according to folklore, to be the home of a small grey Ceffyl-dwr (a welsh water horse similar to a Kelpie).
Ancient Sites / Burial Mounds / Irish Folktales
by Daniel Parkinson · Published July 15, 2009 · Last modified December 11, 2018
Knockinarea is the name of the prominent mountain on the Cuil Irra peninsula to the west of Sligo, County Sligo. The name of the hill has been interpreted as: The Hill of the King, The Hill of the Moon and The Hill of the Executioner amongst other things, and dominates the views from miles around.
Folklore / Folktales / Scottish Fairies / Scottish Folktales / Werewolves
by Ian · Published June 17, 2009 · Last modified October 28, 2018
According to folklore, a family of werewolves used to live on an island on Loch Langavat. The story suggests that the now dead werewolves would return should their graves be found and disturbed.
Book Review / Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Irish Fairies / Irish Folktales / Review
by Ian · Published June 6, 2009 · Last modified October 14, 2018
IRISH FOLKLORE COMMISSION 1935-1970 : History, Ideology, Methodology [Micheal Briody] Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world’s largest folklore collections.
Folklore / Folktales / Legends / Mabinogion / Welsh Folktales
by Ian · Published June 4, 2009 · Last modified November 23, 2018
Whilst reading part of Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1849), I came across a link between the River Artro and Taliesin.
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