Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project
A project exploring the origins, legacies, connections and futures of folk tales in Lincolnshire, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2/2024-7/2025) and hosted at Nottingham Trent University.
Our books:
Rory Waterman, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in England’s Forgotten County (Five Leaves, 2026), exploring folk tales across Lincolnshire, and the places associated with them.
Anna Milon and Rory Waterman (eds), Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined (Five Leaves, 2025), featuring fourteen of Lincolnshire’s finest writers reimagining local folk tales.
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STEVE LOWE Steve Lowe’s debut psychological horror short story, set in the heart of Lincoln, is The Seam Remains, and is available now on his Amazon Author Page. In this blog post, he discusses his fascination with Lincoln and its history and mythology, and discusses his writing processes. If you’d…
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Slash Hollow Boulder
A boulder near Winceby, on the site of the Battle of Winceby (1643) – in which Oliver Cromwell was almost killed but eventually proved triumphant…
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Yallery Brown
A feckless farm labourer, Tom, is walking to the farm when he hears what he thinks is the cry of a baby. He discovers Yallery…
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The Fonaby Sack Stone
In one legend associated with this stack of rocks that apparently used to be one large boulder shaped like a sack, the seventh-century Roman missionary…
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Crowland Abbey & the Devil
It was 869, and the monks of Crowland Abbey – then on an island in the Fens – had allegedly taken to debauchery and blasphemy,…
● About the project
‘Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures’ is a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/Y003225/1), and is led by Dr Rory Waterman and the Research Fellow Dr Anna Milon in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. The project explores the origins, legacies, intertextual and social connections and futures of Lincolnshire folk tales (LFTs), and is intended to facilitate wider engagement with this heritage from writers, the general public, and scholars.
