Coffinswell
It is presumably through a pun on the name of this village that there arose the tale that some unknown lady was buried, for reasons…
Month: July 2021
Buckland Abbey
Sir Francis Drake, whose home this was, is the hero of many legends recorded by two Victorian folklorists active in the area, Mrs Anna Eliza…
Buckfastleigh
At Brooke Manor in this parish, in the seventeenth century, lived Richard Capel or Cabell (d. 1677). The Devon folklorist Theo Brown wrote in 1982:…
Black Anne Pool
Commemorated in an anonymous Victorian poem entitled ‘A Legend’ is the story of Tom Treneman, a fifteenth-century squire of Sowford House, Ivybridge, who reappeared in…
Wormhill
According to tradition, the neighbourhood of Wormhill was once a forest and crowded with trees. It was then the haunt of wild animals. The antiquary…
Tunstead Farm, near Chapel-en-le-Frith
For several hundred years this farm was home to a broken skull nicknamed Dickie or Dick. The first published account dates from 1807, in A…
Meldrum D. Jeffrey
Jeffrey Meldrum, associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and affiliate curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History,…
Huyghe, Patrick
Patrick Huyghe is a science writer whose articles on cryptozoology have reached a large public through their appearance in a number of mainstream magazines. His…
Tran Hong Viet
Tran Hong Viet, the chairman of the Zoology Department of Teachers Training College-Vietnam National University, has studied Vietnamese fauna for more than a quarter of…
Saola
The “Lost World” of Vietnam had a surprise for zoology in 1992; it would reveal an amazing new animal, known to the locals as the…
