Book Review / Folklore / Legends / Occult / Review
by Ian · Published October 18, 2009 · Last modified October 14, 2018
The book is a beautifully thick 685 page tome that promises to examine the dark depths of the vampire world, separating the myth from the chilling reality. Undoubtedly if you were attacked by an undead creature you could probably knock it out by throwing the book at it, but there are much better methods included inside.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Giants / Irish Fairies / Irish Folktales / Legends
by Ian · Published October 11, 2009 · Last modified December 11, 2018
Legendary home of the Irish third century warriors known as the Fianna, Ben Bulben (or Benbulben, Benbulbin, Binn Ghulbain) is a large glacial rock formation in the Darty Mountains.
Cryptozoology / Dragons / Legends
by Ian · Published September 17, 2009 · Last modified December 13, 2018
Robert or should this be William Winstantley of Saffron Walden wrote a pamphlet titled ‘The Flying Serpent or Strange News Out of Essex – A True Relation of a Monsterous Serpent seen at Henham on the Mount in Saffron Walden,’ published in 1699. Part of the text concerning this dragon is repeated below.
Devil / Other Mysteries / Simulacra
by Ian · Published September 4, 2009 · Last modified November 22, 2018
Built in 1850, this Baptist Chapel was made famous by the Devon artist Sydney Curnow Vosper (29 October 1866 – 10 July 1942) in 1908, when he painted a member of the congregation in traditional Welsh costume.
A tree known as Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyl (hollow tree of the demons/spirits) used to stand in Nannau Park and it had a reputation of being haunted and evil, for this is the tree in which Owain Glyndwr was, according to legend, supposed to have hidden the body of his cousin Hywel Sele, 8th Lord of Nannau after he had killed him in 1404.
Aquatic Monsters / Cryptozoology / Dragons / King Arthur / Legends
by Ian · Published July 25, 2009 · Last modified November 22, 2018
The glacial lake of Llyn Cau at Cader Idris is said to be bottomless and according to tradition it is thought to be the home of a lake monster responsible for drowning a man who went swimming in the cold waters.
Ancient Sites / Devil / Early Christianity / Folklore / Legends / UFO Abductions / UFOs / Wells
by Ian · Published July 16, 2009 · Last modified December 11, 2018
St Patrick’s Chair and Well (also known as the Druids Chair and Well or St Brigid’s Well or St Brigit’s Well) lies within Altadeven Wood, not far from the Ulster Way footpath. The chair is a huge 2m high stone block, shaped like a throne.
Cryptozoology / Dragons / Legends
by Ian · Published June 17, 2009 · Last modified December 13, 2018
The pamphlet that deals with the Henham winged serpent also relates the story of a basilisk dragon that held siege to Saffron Walden centuries before. It was described as:
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.
Ancient Sites / Burial Mounds / King Arthur / Legends
by Ian · Published May 30, 2009 · Last modified November 22, 2018
The Cors-y-Gedol burial chamber which still has it’s capstone intact is also referred to as Arthur’s Quoit and can be found close to some ancient hut circles known as the Irishmen’s huts on the slope of Moelfre.
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