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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In My Pocket
A dim-witted giant and his clever, goodly dwarf friend go wandering, the dwarf in his friend’s pocket, and come across a field of sheep. Being…
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The Lass that Saw her own Grave Dug
A lad called Fox courts a girl called Bessie, with sudden and apparently huge devotion, and arranges to meet her in the country by a…
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The Read’s Island Werewolf
The story of a man who set himself up as a ferryman on Read’s Island ‘about 400 years ago’, and allegedly killed and ate many…
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White Hart Hotel Ghosts
This former coaching inn has existed in one guise or another since at least the fourteenth century, and is associated with many ghost stories and…
● 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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