Lilith : Screech Owl; Beautiful Maiden; Dark Maid; Flame of the Revolving Sword; Maid of Desolation; Night Demon; Hand of Inanna; The Night Witch; The Howler Lilith: First Woman, Night Demon and
Abraxas: The Gnostic Power Beyond Good and Evil Abraxas, also written as Abrasax, Abraxis, or Abracax, is one of the most mysterious and paradoxical figures in Gnostic, magical, and demonological tradition. He has been called a god, a demon, a
Here there is a ghost legend about a Captain Thomas Bound, a supporter of Cromwell, who died in 1667 and was remembered as a wicked man, very cruel and covetous, and hard
Jabez Allies, writing in 1852, recalled a tradition of his boyhood, which on his evidence seems to have been current in the eighteenth century: I well remember, in my juvenile days, hearing
Though spectral dogs are commonplace in British lore, it is not often that one is interpreted as the actual ghost of a named dog, with a story to explain the haunting. But
Harvington Hall, about a mile (1.6 km) north-west of the village, is a late Elizabethan mansion, much remodelled in the seventeenth century; it is notable for its many priest holes and secret
Roy Palmer, who wrote The Folklore of Hereford and Worcester (1992), commented on various macabre traditions involving ghosts and hunting hounds. The owners of Church Farm at Besford used to have the
In his Household Tales (1895), S. O. Addy writes: The ghost of one of the Brights of Whirlow Hall, near Sheffield, was said to appear in a lane near the house in
W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, in his History … of Darlington (1854), says that his former residence at Thirsk had a White Lady attached to a nearby stream. This stream indeed took its
The ghost who cannot rest until his or her hidden treasure has been found is a theme of a number of international folktales. Not always, however, do things turn out so badly
Flamborough Flamborough, on the dramatic East Yorkshire coast, is a place of chalk cliffs, sea caves, old wells and deep hollows where local folklore once placed fairies, ghosts and other beings that
William Henderson, in his Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties (1866), writes: The village of Calverley, near Bradford … has been haunted since the time of Queen Elizabeth by the
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