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…
● Latest Articles
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The Great Bell of Burgh
Inhabitants of Burgh le Marsh used to light a beacon to lure ships, hoping they would assume it marked the shore, would founder, and could…
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The East Halton Hob-Thrust
One morning, so this story goes, a farmer in East Halton got up early to bring his sheep to the barn for shearing – a…
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Greestone Stairs Ghosts
Several ghost stories are associated with the location, including that of a nun who allegedly lays a baby in a flowerbed, the stolen head of…
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Billy Shuffler & the Witches
A small boy is stolen by witches, ‘to be boiled in their cauldrons for the purpose of making charms of his bones’…
● 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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