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
Renishaw is the country house of the Sitwells, the Derbyshire family to which Sir Osbert Sitwell, Dame Edith Sitwell, and Sacheverell Sitwell belonged. The original small house, built by Sir George Sitwell
Towering over the upper reaches of Lathkill Dale, near Over Haddon, is a limestone crag formerly known as Fox Tor. Murray’s Handbook for … Derbyshire (1868), after describing how the River Lathkill
Magpie Mine: The Cursed Mine of the Peak District Magpie Mine stands on the bleak limestone plateau above Sheldon, close to Ashford-in-the-Water in Derbyshire. Its ruined engine house rises from the surrounding
Highlow Hall is a small manor house of probably the sixteenth century, perched on top of a shoulder leading up to Smelting Hill and by ancient lanes from Hathersage to Abney and
Heage Hall, later divided into cottages, had the reputation of being haunted. In Ghosts of Derbyshire (1973), Clarence Daniel writes that this reputation was actively encouraged to divert attention from criminal activities,
S. O. Addy reports in Household Tales (1895) the tradition that, in the sixteenth century, all the dead in the cemetery surrounding the ancient chapel rose from their sleep in golden raiment.
Shady Lane, a stretch of road running between Great Longstone and Ashford-in-the-Water, is said to be haunted at twilight by a procession of twelve headless men carrying an empty coffin. Clarence Daniel,
From Eckington came a sombre fairytale related by the nineteenth-century collector S. O. Addy. ‘The Golden Cup’ is a horror story possibly told to children to stop them pestering adults. There was
Dunscar Farm, near Castleton in Derbyshire’s Hope Valley, occupies an unusual place in the folklore of haunted England. Unlike many famous haunted houses, its reputation does not depend upon repeated sightings of
A village of this name once existed, together with its small church, in the area which was submerged when the Ladybower Reservoir was made in the 1940s. In the 1990s, several writers
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