15 Jack Yates and Henry Thorold, Lincolnshire, A Shell Guide, as cited in Judith Spelman’s collection of prose and poetry, Lincolnshire Bedside Book, p.12.
16 Taken from Daniel Defoe’s A tour through England and Wales, Vol.2, 1724, when he was apparently travelling that way in beginning of eighteenth century. Cited by Judith Spelman in her collection of prose and poetry, Lincolnshire Bedside Book, p.66.
One: The Devil and His Serpent
1 Lincolnshire Life magazine, October 1999, p.70.
2 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore.
3 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.71.
4 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.65.
5 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.vi.
6 Quote from Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England Vol.ii, as cited on www.books.google.com
7 H.J. Kesson, The Legend of the Lincoln Imp.
8 Lincolnshire Life, November 1998, p.53.
9 Adrian Gray, Tales of Old Lincolnshire, p.22.
10 Lincolnshire Life, May 1998, p.19.
11 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.64.
12 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.77.
13 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.43.
14 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.88.
15 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.42.
16 Revelations 12: 7–9, The Bible.
17 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.56.
18 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.67.
19 Quote taken from Gough’s Camden, Vol.1, p.274. Cited in The Lincolnshire Magazine July/August 1935, p.164.
20 Christopher Marlowe, Legends of the Fenland People, p.57.
21 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.17.
22 Adrian Gray, Tales of Old Lincolnshire, p.95.
23 Ralph Whitlock, Here Be Dragons, p.44.
24 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.34.
25 Isaiah 27:1, The Bible.
26 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.43.
Two: The Wet And Wilds
1 See Rex Needle’s website: www.homepages.which.net
2 ibid.
3 Judith Spelman, Lincolnshire Bedside Book: A Collection of Prose and Poetry, p.13 quoted from Jack Yates and Henry Thorold, Lincolnshire, A Shell Guide.
4 Christopher Marlowe, Legends of the Fenland People, p.11.
5 Kenneth McLeish, Myths & Folkstories of Britain & Ireland, p.18.
6 Jennifer Westwood, Albion, A Guide to Legendary Britain, p.183.
7 Stewart Bennett, A History of Lincolnshire, p.85.
8 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.7.
9 Adrian Gray, Tales of Old Lincolnshire, p.114.
10 Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson, The Penguin Book of Ghosts, p.217.
11 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.68.
12 Adrian Gray, Tales of Old Lincolnshire, p.54.
13 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.72.
14 Elaine Kazimierczuk, A Lincolnshire Notebook, p.5.
15 Lincolnshire Life, January 1998.
16 Lincolnshire Life, June 1998, p.44.
17 Christopher Marlowe, Legends of the Fenland People, p.199.
18 John Goddard & Roger Spalding, Fish ‘n’ Ships: The Rise and Fall of Grimsby – The World’s Premier Fishing Port, p.43.
19 Lincolnshire Life, October 1999, p.70.
20 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.7.
21 D.C. Staveley in David N. Robinson’s, The Book of the Lincolnshire Seaside, p.139.
22 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.14.
23 Katharine M. Briggs, British Folk Tales and Legends, A Sampler, p.215.
Three: Black Dogs and Strange Encounters
1 Taken from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, p.113/114.
2 From Theo Brown, The Black Dog, Folk-Lore, 1958. See www.nli.northampton.ac.uk
3 See www.paranormaldatabase.com
4 Katharine M. Briggs, British Folk Tales and Legends, A Sampler, p.115.
5 Ethel H. Rudkin, The Black Dog, p.113.
6 Poem reproduced in Ethel Rudkin, The Black Dog, p.119/120, written by Muriel M. Andrew, entitled ‘The Legend of the Ghost in Bonny Wells Lane’.
7 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.93.
8 See www.nli.northampton.ac.uk
9 See www.lincolnshiregothic.blogspot.com
10 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.149.
11 ibid, p.151.
12 Christopher Marlowe, Legends of the Fenland People.
13 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.149.
14 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.65 & 240.
15 Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson, The Penguin Book of Ghosts, p.218.
16 Lincolnshire Life, December 1998, p.28.
17 Jennifer Westwood, Albion, A Guide to Legendary Britain, p.209.
18 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.36/37.
Four: Giants and Heroes
1 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.11.
2 Charles W. Whistler, Havelok The Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln, p.117.
3 Jennifer Westwood, Albion, A Guide to Legendary Britain, p.191.
4 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.60.
5 Lincolnshire Life, April 1998, p.26.
6 See www.hiddenea.com
7 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.155.
8 ibid, p.16.
9 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.64.
10 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.323.
11 Adrian Gray, Tales of Old Lincolnshire, p.118.
12 Peter Rex, Hereward, The Last Englishman, p.33.
13 ibid, p.26.
14 See www.robinhoodloxley.net
15 Peter Rex, Hereward, The Last Englishman, p.58.
16 Christopher Marlowe, Legends of the Fenland People, p.40.
17 Peter Rex, Hereward, The Last Englishman, p.67.
Five: Things that go Bump in the Lincolnshire Night
1 See www.unexplained-mysteries.com
2 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.34. Tittuppin’ means going up and down or backwards and forwards.
3 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.88/94.
4 The Lincolnshire Magazine, July/August 1935, p.165.
5 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.94. See also www.orpheusweb.co.uk
6 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.29.
7 Lincolnshire Life, January 1994, p.10.
8 Roy Fisk, Lincolnshire Medley, p.102.
9 From The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol.130 (1821). Extract of description given by Mr Gervase Hollis (from Grimsby) about 1640 (Harleian MSS No.6829 p.162).
10 See www.rodcollins.com
11 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.30.
12 Christopher Marlowe, Legends of the Fenland People, p.189.
13 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.50.
14 Polly Howat, Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country, p.79.
15 See Daniel Codd’s website: www.urbanlincs.co.uk
16 Lincolnshire Life, September 1998, p.70.
17 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.50.
18 The Lincolnshire Magazine, May/June 1934, p.362.
19 Lincolnshire Life magazine, October 1998, p.70.
Six: Witchcraft and Cunning
1 See www.bibl
iotecapleyades.net
2 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore.
3 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.96.
4 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.50.
5 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.91/197. ‘Eyespell’ is presumably some sort of curse, although not fully explained.
6 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.97.
7 Katharine M. Briggs, British Folk Tales and Legends, A Sampler, p.304.
8 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.48.
9 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.78.
10 Lincolnshire Life, October 1998, p.70.
11 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.54.
12 Katharine M. Briggs, British Folk Tales and Legends, A Sampler, p.194.
13 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.47.
14 Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.81.
15 Jennifer Westwood, Albion, A Guide to Legendary Britain, p.181.
16 Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.97/98.
Seven: Yellowbelly Sayings and Superstitions
1 Roy Fisk, Lincolnshire Gleanings, p.69.
2 Lincolnshire Life, May 1998, p.19.
3 Lincolnshire Life, April 1998, p.26.
4 Roy Palmer, Britain’s Living Folklore, p.67.
5 G. Edward Campion, Lincolnshire Dialects, p.31.
6 Roy Palmer, Britain’s Living Folklore, p.77.
7 Lincolnshire Life, January 1999, p.12.
8 Lincolnshire Life, June 1999, p.23.
9 Katharine M. Briggs, British Folk Tales and Legends, A Sampler, p.266.
10 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.29.
11 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.20.
12 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.150.
13 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.15.
14 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.22.
15 The Lincolnshire Magazine, July/August 1935, p.164.
16 Daniel Codd, Mysterious Lincolnshire, p.180.
17 ibid, p.181.
18 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.2/3.
19 ibid, p.40/43.
20 ibid, p.38.
21 ibid, p.22.
22 ibid, p.37.
23 ibid, p.156.
24 The Lincolnshire Poacher magazine quoted from Mrs E. M. Shafto, autumn 2002, p.58.
25 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.13.
26 Roy Fisk Lincolnshire Gleanings, p.42 & 69.
27 The Lincolnshire Poacher, quoted from Andrew Allen’s article, autumn 2002, p.30.
Eight: A Lincolnshire Year
1 Maureen Sutton, A Lincolnshire Calendar.
2 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.169.
3 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.41.
4 ibid, p.49.
5 ibid, p.92.
6 Elaine Kazimierczuk, A Lincolnshire Notebook, p.8.
7 Hobson, Jeremy: Curious Country Customs, p.14.
8 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.188.
9 Lincolnshire Life magazine, April 1999, p.7.
10 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.45.
11 Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock, Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire, p.193.
12 See J.D.A. Widdowson’s website: www.eastbournehouse.co.uk
13 Ethel H. Rudkin, Lincolnshire Folklore, p.46.
14 The Lincolnshire Magazine, September/October 1934, p.14.
15 Lincolnshire Life, October 1998, p.70.
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