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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Rory Waterman I’m not a ‘guest writer’, I’ll confess: I was the project lead on the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project during its funded period, and now keep the website going on my own. But please excuse the indulgence. My new book, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in…
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Hereward the Wake
Hereward the Wake was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman who resisted Norman conquest in and around the Fens from his base on the Isle of Ely, and…
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The Tetford Witch
Tales exist concerning a witch who lived close to Tetford church, in a cottage with a small hole in it, through which she was allegedly…
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King Cnut & the Trent Aegir
The Trent Aegir is a tidal bore on the River Trent, perhaps named for the Ægir, a personification of the ocean in Norse mythology. It…
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The Green Lady
According to the legend, Bolle was duty-bound to protect Oviedo, who had been taken prisoner during Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1596 raid on Cadiz, and they…
● 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.
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