In most parts of northern England, ‘dobbie’, ‘dobby’, or ‘dobie’ is a name for a helpful household elf or goblin. In James Bowker’s Goblin Tales of Lancashire (1883), however, there is an
Blickling Hall Blickling Hall, standing amid the Norfolk countryside near Aylsham, is associated with one of England’s darkest traditions of the phantom coach. The magnificent Jacobean mansion seen today replaced an earlier house belonging to the Boleyn family, and although
In 1771, a certain Jack Upperton of Burpham, together with another man, attempted to rob a post-boy who was carrying mail across the Downs from Steyning to Arundel, in Blakehurst Lane on
About a mile (1.6 km) outside the town stands Clopton House, originally an Elizabethan mansion but remodelled in the eighteenth century, which is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of several family members
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, a late Victorian writer on the supernatural, drew attention to the fact that the journal Ackerman’s Repository in November 1820 carried an account of an unusual legal case which
Two separate tales of haunting are told of Ragley Hall, in the parish of Arrow, and its park. First, as reported by J. Harvey Bloom c.1930, there is the claim that a
W. P. Witcutt noted in the journal Folk-Lore in 1944 that from 1922 to 1929 the attic of the manor house here was reputedly haunted by a phantom known as Plantie’s Ghost.
A complex and persistent tale of haunting is set in and around the now-demolished Little Lawford Hall, for a long time the seat of the Boughtons – a family with the sinister
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
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