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
The Spirit of Dantalion: The 71st Spirit of Solomon Dantalion is one of the most enigmatic spirits in the Ars Goetia, known as the 71st of the 72 Spirits of Solomon. A mighty Duke of Hell, Dantalion governs 36 legions
Many traditions about ghosts have been collected from this village by various writers between c.1930 and 1980, including J. Harvey Bloom, Alan Burgess, Roy Palmer, and Meg Atkins. One report concerns the
The battle of Edgehill, the first major encounter in the Civil War, was fought on 23 October 1642. Three months later, in January 1643, a pamphlet entitled A Great Wonder in Heaven
In 1923–4, there were repeated rumours of strange lights moving around this village and the nearby ones of Fenny Compton and Northend; nowadays they would be classified as UFO apparitions, but at
In 1872, the folklorist J. S. Udal inquired through the pages of Notes and Queries whether there was any basis for the ‘rather startling and fearsome legend’ popularly linked with this fine
One of the brief items of folk tradition recorded by J. Harvey Bloom in the 1920s is as follows: At Alveston a plough lad named Charles Walton met a dog on his
Following their survey of local folklore, L. F. Newman and E. M. Wilson in 1952 wrote: It is still a current belief in Westmorland and North Lancashire that black dogs haunt certain
Plans were announced in 2003 for the restoration of Lowther Castle, in 1957 reduced to a shell. The castle was built between 1806 and 1814 on the site of Lowther Hall, home
Levens Hall is a mainly Elizabethan house built round a fortified pele tower of the late 1200s. The Elizabethan parts of the house are largely the work of James Bellingham, who inherited
Today a modern ferry takes passengers across the narrow part of Lake Windermere from Rawlinson’s Nab on the east bank to the Ferry House on the west, passing between the lake’s islands,
Probably the best-known ghost in and around Appleby is one from Cromwellian times known as ‘Peg Sneddle’, an account of whom is given in E. Bellasis’ Machells of Crackenthorpe (1886). Here she
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