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Johannes Cuntius: The Pentsch Vampire

Cuntius, Johannes (Pentsch Vampire)

Johannes Cuntius: The Pentsch Vampire Johannes Cuntius, also known as the Pentsch Vampire, is one of the stranger cases in early modern vampire lore. His story comes from Silesia and was recorded
12 October 2017
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Devil’s Pact

A Devil’s pact is a pledge to serve the Devil or one of his Demons. The pact may be made orally, but according to lore it is best to write it on virgin parchment and sign it in blood. The
25 July 2017
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Padilha, Maria

Maria Padilha: Queen of Pomba Gira In the sixteenth century, Portugal became the first European nation

Minona

ORIGIN: Fon (Benin, formerly Dahomey) Minona is a powerful forest-dwelling spirit of magic, fertility, and domestic

Nottingham

Nottingham Castle stands on the summit of a precipitous rock. Although a castle was built here by William the Conqueror, the present building was erected in 1679. The castle rock is honeycombed
16 December 2021

Clifton Grove

The fine avenue of trees running alongside the river from Clifton Hall towards Wilton known as Clifton Grove was a popular place of resort in the eighteenth century. In his additions to
16 December 2021

The Bessie Stone

On the A60 between Nottingham and Mansfield, a little north of its junction with the B6020 to Kirkby, is the once conspicuous landmark of the Bessie Stone. Now standing in a dip
16 December 2021

Troughend

A popular Border ballad was ‘The Death of Parcy Reed’, taken down from the ‘chanting’ of an old woman named Kitty Hall, by James Telfer of Saughtree, Liddesdale. Telfer presented a transcript
16 December 2021

Shilbottle

The dangers of mining – from pit-falls to fire damp – are reflected in the beliefs of miners, especially those concerning various spirits formerly said to haunt mines. One usually appearing as
16 December 2021

Meldon

In 1832, the county historian John Hodgson gave a vivid account of a seventeenth-century witch, Meg of Meldon. He writes: MEG, or, as some call her, THE MAID OF MELDON, was, according
16 December 2021

Haltwhistle

In the second volume of M. A. Richardson’s Table Book (1844) appears what is said to be a popular story ‘of which the occurrences happened about forty years ago’, and which, or
16 December 2021

Dilston

Dilston Hall, built in 1616, was demolished in 1768, except for its chapel, which, like the surviving tower of the earlier Dilston Castle, is now a listed ancient monument. The Hall itself
16 December 2021

Denton Hall

Denton Hall, near Newcastle, was said to be haunted by an apparition clad in rustling silks. A literary story of an encounter with this spectre contributed to M. A. Richardson’s Table Book
16 December 2021

Cuddie’s Cave

A mile-long (1.6 km) walk on the Kyloe Hills leads to a natural cave in open woodland. Marked on the map as ‘St Cuthbert’s Cave’, it was more popularly known as Cuddie’s
16 December 2021
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