Tag: folklore
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The Mowing Devil
The Mowing-Devil, also known as ‘Strange News out of Hartford-shire’ is an English woodcut pamphlet from 1678, telling the moralistic tale of a farmer and…
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Dancing Around the Druid’s Stone in Bungay
Known as ‘the Devil’s Stone’, ‘the Druid’s Stone’, or even ‘the Giant’s Grave’, this hefty old stone has existed in Bungay for millennia.
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Very Superfishous – Haddock Folklore of the UK
While I didn’t grow up associating seafood with death omens, or positive lucky ones for that matter, many communities did.
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It’s Raining Fish! Fish-falls and Other Curious Phenomena
You know the song ‘its raining men’? Well, you just wait until you hear ‘Quickly, get indoors, its raining fish.’
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The Legend of the Chained Oak
An enormous and infamous oak tree in Staffordshire has been bound in huge chains for over a century.
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1000-Year Old Boulder Demon Released!
The boulder imprisoned an ancient demon that was released as soon as the stone broke. To add insult to injury, anyone who touches the rock…
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Corpse Candles
Originating in Wales in the 18th and 19th centuries, corpse candles are an omen of death.
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Telling the Bees!
Following a death, the list of duties seem endless. From booking the undertaker to choosing the coffin, plot or crematorium, the list of necessities seems…
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The Lambton Worm: Here Be Dragons
Heard the one about the boy who skipped church and summoned the Devil?
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Invoking the Owlman
England in the 1970s; disco, flares, chilled bottles of blue nun… And a six-foot owl man.
Burials & Beyond 