Earthworks and ruins at Old Bolingbroke, west of Spilsby, are all that remain of thirteenth-century Bolingbroke Castle, believed in the seventeenth century to be haunted by an animal ghost. Gervase Holles, in
Shilbottle: Blue Cap, Cutty Soams and the Haunted Mines of Northumberland Beneath the coalfields of northern England, folklore developed in an environment where the supernatural and the brutally practical were never very far apart. A miner descending underground entered a
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
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
To Calgarth Hall, once the home of the Philipson family, was attached one of the oldest and best-known traditions of screaming skulls. What may have been the earliest form of the story
About the end of the seventeenth century, says Jeremiah Sullivan, in Cumberland and Westmorland, Ancient and Modern (1857), a man well known in the neighbourhood of Appleby as ‘Old Shepherd’, who had
The manor house here is built on the site of a former monastery, and like others of similar history is said to be haunted by a monk. The story of this monk,
In 1681, Joseph Glanvill published his treatise Saducismus Triumphatus, ‘Saduceism Defeated’ – meaning by ‘Saduceism’ the doctrine of the Sadducees mentioned in the New Testament, who denied that there is an afterlife.
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