The Folklore of the Cotswolds
Author : Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,3 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Gloucestershire Folk Tales
Author : Anthony Nanson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 26,61 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.
Folklore of Gloucestershire
Author : Roy Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The Folklore of Gloucestershire
Folklore of the Cotswolds
Author : June Lewis-Jones
Publisher : Tempus Pub Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752429304
Book Description
This detailed book by folklore enthusiast June Lewis-Jones explores the heritage of folklore that has always been so prevalent throughout the Cotswolds, from cures and remedies, recipes and traditions to dance, song, language in the region, and recounts mysteries, tales of witches and ghosts, and explains legends born of the landscape, such as the Devil's Chimney and the Rollright Stones, and lesser-known Cotswold stories like the secret marriage at Snowshill Manor.
Folklore and Mysteries of the Cotswolds
Author : Mark Turner
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Cotswold Hills (England)
ISBN :
Book Description
The Cotswolds have, for centuries, been shrouded in mystery. Ghost stories and rumours of witchcraft are common, and in modern times UFOs and even crop circles have added to the area's fascination. This book gathers together a collection of personal accounts from the district.
The Folklore of the Cotswolds
Author : Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
A Dictionary of English Folklore
Author : Jacqueline Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191578525
Book Description
This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. An engrossing guide to English folklore and traditions, with over 1,250 entries. Folklore is connected to virtually every aspect of life, part of the country, age group, and occupation. From the bizarre to the seemingly mundane, it is as much a feature of the modern technological age as of the ancient world. BL Oral and Performance genres-Cheese rolling, Morris dancing, Well-dressingEL BL Superstitions-Charms, Rainbows, WishbonesEL BL Characters-Cinderella, Father Christmas, Robin Hood, Dick WhittingtonEL BL Supernatural Beliefs-Devil's hoofprints, Fairy rings, Frog showersEL BL Calendar Customs-April Fool's Day, Helston Furry Day, Valentine's DayEL
A Cotswold Family Life
Author : Clare Mackintosh
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780751575569
Book Description
From No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Clare Mackintosh, A Cotswold Family Life is a warm, humorous memoir of family life in the countryside 'Insightful, funny, absorbing' Prue Leith 'Original yet totally recognisable' Katie Fforde 'Sheer bliss!' Jill Mansell 'Heartfelt and poignant' Sunday Express I have always loved the Cotswolds. I think I loved them even before I found them, in that half-formed ideal one has of where to put down roots. Somewhere peaceful, green, where the road meanders between drystone walls and from town to town, and a strip of blue bursts from brook to river and back again. For eight years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for Cotswold Life about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir, she brings together all of those stories - and more - for the first time. From keeping chickens to getting the WI drunk, longing for an Aga to dealing with nits, Clare opens the door to family life with warmth and humour and heart. Have you read Clare Mackintosh's bestselling fiction? A Game of Lies, her new smart and twisty thriller, is out now.
Oxfordshire Folk Tales
Author : Kevan Manwaring
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0752479059
Book Description
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross and listen to the tales of this ancient county. Hear how a King and his knights were turned to stone at the mysterious Rollright Stones; how Dragon Hill got its name; take the Devil's Highway to the End of the World - if you dare; or spend a night on the weird Ot Moor; listen in on the Boar's Head Carol; walk the oldest trackway in Europe in the footsteps of a Neolithic pilgrim; pause to try the Blowing Stone; leave a coin for the enigmatic blacksmith to shoe your horse at Wayland's Smithy; eavesdrop upon the Inklings in the Eagle and Child; and meet that early fabulist, Geoffrey of Monmouth in the city of dreaming spires. This collection will take you on an oral tour across the county - on the way you'll meet gypsies, highwaymen, cavaliers, a prime minister and a devilish mason.
Haunted England
Author : Jennifer Westwood
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 24,25 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' ...
