Book Description
The Folklore of Gloucestershire
Folklore of Gloucestershire
Author : Roy Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Gloucestershire Folk Tales for Children
Author : Anthony Nanson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0750995467
Book Description
How do you survive a mermaid's curse? Where lurks the immortal cat? Who cooks old boots in a stew? Is treasure really buried down under May Hill? Dive into these tales from forest, vale and high blue hill, on a journey that will take you far into the past, deep into other worlds and through the seasons of the year – all without leaving Gloucestershire! Strange and fabulous stories from all over the county are brought to life in this book by Stroud storytellers Anthony Nanson and Kirsty Hartsiotis.
Gloucestershire Folk Tales
Author : Anthony Nanson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0752477951
Book Description
Gloucestershire's stories go back to the days of Sabrina, spirit of the Severn, and the Nine Hags of Gloucester. Tales tell of sky-ships over Bristol, the silk-caped wraith of Dover's Hill, snow foresters on the Cotswolds, and Cirencester's dark-age drama of snake and nipple. They uncover the tragic secrets of Berkeley Castle and the Gaunts' Chapel, a lonely ghost haunting an ancient inn, and twenty-first-century beasts in the Forest of Dean. From the intrigue and romance of town and abbey to the faery magic of the wild, here are thirty of the county's most enchanting tales, brought imaginatively to life by a dynamic local storyteller.
The Folklore of the Cotswolds
Author : Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
The Tailor of Gloucester
Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1532400403
Book Description
Mice come to the rescue when a lowly tailor struggles to complete a very important Christmas job—from the author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. A poor tailor needs help from his animal friends to finish an elaborate coat that will transform his fortunes. The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter is part of the Xist Publishing Children’s Classics collection. Each ebook has been specially formatted with full-screen, full-color illustrations and the original, charming text.
Haunted England
Author : Jennifer Westwood
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0141959533
Book Description
Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...
Dark Folklore
Author : Mark Norman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0750998326
Book Description
How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think it is? And what's that tapping noise on the roof of your car..? The fields of folklore have never been more popular – a recent resurgence of interest in traditional beliefs and customs, coupled with morbid curiosities in folk horror, historic witchcraft cases and our superstitious past, have led to an intersection of ideas that is driving people to seek out more information. Tracey Norman (author of the acclaimed play WITCH) and Mark Norman (creator of The Folklore Podcast) lead you on an exploration of those more salubrious facets of our past, highlighting those aspects of our cultural beliefs and social history that are less 'wicker basket' and more 'Wicker Man'.
County Folklore
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 1895
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Gloucester's Sea Serpent
Author : Wayne Soini
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1614232334
Book Description
In 1817, as Gloucester, Massachusetts, was recovering from the War of 1812, something beneath the water was about to cause a stir in this New England coastal community. It was a misty August day when two women first sighted Gloucester's sea serpent, touching off a riptide of excitement among residents that reached a climax when Matt Gaffney fired a direct shot at the creature. Local historian Wayne Soini explores the depths of Gloucester harbor to reveal a treasure-trove of details behind this legendary mystery. Follow as he tracks Justice of the Peace Lonson Nash's careful investigation, the world's first scientific study of this marine animal, and judges the credibility of numerous reported sightings.
Storytelling and Ecology
Author : Anthony Nanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1350114936
Book Description
Linking the ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation and disenchantment in modern society, this book investigates the capacity of oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world and enchant and renew their experience of nature, place and their own existence in the world. Anthony Nanson offers an in-depth examination of how a diverse ecosystem of oral stories and the dynamics of storytelling as an activity can catalyse different kinds of conversation and motivation, helping us resist the discourse of powerful vested interests. Detailed analysis of traditional, true-life and fictional stories shows how spoken narrative language can imbue landscapes, creatures and experiences with enchantment and mediate between the inner world of consciousness and outer world of ecology and community. A pioneering ecolinguistic and ecocritical study of oral storytelling in the modern world, Storytelling and Ecology offers insight into the ways that sharing stories in each other's embodied presence can open up spaces for transformation in our relationships with the ecological world around us.
