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
In Bradwell: Ancient and Modern (1912), Seth Evans tells the story of the ‘Lumb Boggart’ (‘Lumb’ coming from the Old English word for a pool). He writes: It used to be said
‘Of all the houses I have seen,’ wrote Louis Jennings in 1880, ‘the castle at Bolsover is the most weird and ghostly.’ Strung out along a hilltop, its history reaches back to
Arbor or Arbour Low on Middleton Moor, west of Youlgreave, is a double-entrance henge monument dating from c.2000–1600 BC. Standing high above sea level and commanding a wide view, it was probably,
When she was collecting Cheshire folklore in the 1930s, Christina Hole was told how a Catholic woman had seen the ghost of a priest but had not realized it at the time;
The pub in this village is named the Headless Woman, and its signboard does indeed show a woman carrying her severed head under her arm. Pubs displaying this image (now rare) were
The collection of local anecdotes collected from members of Women’s Institutes in the 1950s includes a standing joke against the people of Stanney as being timid simpletons. Allegedly, they were so terrified
In the nineteenth century a ghost known as the Gatley Shouter was said to haunt the Gatley Carrs, a swampy morass near the river in the parishes of Stockport, Northen (now Northenden)
There is an old legend about the Breretons, formerly owners of Brereton Hall, that they,like many other ancient families, had a death omen peculiar to themselves. In their case, it concerned a
According to a tradition of the mid nineteenth century, Lyme Park (near Disley) is said to be haunted by a phantom funeral which slowly approaches the house, followed by the ghost of
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