Mother Shipton: Yorkshire’s Nostradamus
Old Mother Shipton I visited Knaresborough in Yorkshire on a family holiday when I was a teenager. One of the things I remember most...
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- Apr 24, 2013
- 6 min
Sawney Bean: Cannibal, Progaganda or Bogeyman?
By Levi L. Hill [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, image adapted by Lenora “A man and his wife behind him on the same horse, coming...
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- Apr 15, 2013
- 9 min
The Wicked Lady: folklore, fiction – fact?
The Gentleman’s Magazine, Monday, 24 November 1735: Margaret Lockwood as the Wicked Lady, 1945 Gainsborough Pictures. “A Butcher was...
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- Apr 10, 2013
- 9 min
Eyam: Village of Death
A Lovers Tryst Detail of tombstone at Eyam Two lovers meet in secret. Gazing across the grassy Delph, they dare not speak for fear of...
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