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
According to a strong local tradition recorded early in the nineteenth century, there was a violent encounter between deer poachers and forest keepers in Cranborne Chase in 1780, known as the battle
Writing in 1922, J. S. Udal records that it was thought in the 1880s that Bagley House near Bridport had long been haunted by a noisy but usually invisible ghost which caused
For several generations the owners of this manor house near Bridport (who, until recently, were the Pinney family) have declared that its luck depends on a certain skull, the true age and
The Dorset dialect poet William Barnes (1801–86) spent his youth in this village, and in later life told his grandchildren how he used to believe that a house he often passed on
In 1883, Edwin Guest argued that this large Iron Age hill-fort about two miles (3.2 km) west of Shapwick was the ‘Mount Badon’ where, according to early chronicles, King Arthur won his
A farm in this parish was the setting for a series of events made famous in a pamphlet of 1641 entitled A True Relation of an Apparition in the likenesse of a
In the 1920s, the local historian J. Y. Anderson-Morshead compiled archives on the history of this parish, including an account of the ghost of Mr Lyde of Sid House given many years
Besides packs of demon dogs, Devon traditions also mention individual Black Dogs – or perhaps a Black Dog appearing in many places. One of the most circumstantial reports of this spectral beast,
A stone on a low mound, at the crossing of a footpath and a bridleway on the parish boundary, is said to mark the site of ‘Stephen’s Grave’. The first printed account
‘Okehampton Park is the scene of the nightly penance of Lady Howard,’ says Murray’s Handbook (1879). Elsewhere Murray tells us that the former mansion of Fitzford at Tavistock belonged in 1644 to
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