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A correspondent of Notes and Queries in 1853 drew attention to the apparent survival around Marazion of a very ancient belief. He notes that, in Don Quixote (1604–15), Cervantes mentions an English

Gilsland, on the Northumberland–Cumberland border, is in modern gazetteers assigned to Northumberland, Gilsland Spa to Cumberland. Nineteenth-century authors do not always make this distinction. William Henderson, for example, in his Folk-Lore of

A belief once prevailed in the western districts of Cornwall that Porthcurno was its principal port until the cove became ‘sanded up’. Some said this was the work of Jan Tregeagle of

On the summit of Trencrom Hill, commanding a view over land and sea, is the small Iron Age hillfort of Trencrom Castle. Like other hill-forts and cliff-castles, it was later said to

Given that strange noises made by trickling water, distant tunnelling, and other mining operations were habitually heard by miners working in darkness and often alone, it is scarcely surprising that England has

In 1860, Mackenzie Walcott recorded the tradition that, near Ulpha, ‘a lady was destroyed by a wolf at the well of Lady’s Dub.’ Others say that this was the lady of Ulpha

In a letter written on 12 December 1874 while he was staying at Ripley Castle, Augustus Hare recorded the story of a moment-of-death apparition which he had heard there: Another story which

Southery ‘The Legend of the Southery Wolf-Hound’, told by W. H. Barrett in Tales from the Fens (1963), says that, when Southery was an island, cut off by Southery Fen, monks came

The house still known as Chicksands Priory was originally a foundation of the comparatively rare Gilbertine Order. Dissolved with other religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII, in 1587 it became

The grounds of Battlesden House, since demolished, are said to be haunted by the restless ghost of a dishonest steward. He is heard rattling milk pails and crying: Milk and water sold