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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The Lindsey Leopard
Sightings of the Lindsey Leopard have mainly been in the north, hence the name. Big cat sightings (or imagined sightings) are common in other places…
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‘Paranormal Paradise’: St Botolph’s Skidbrooke
This large redundant church near Skidbrooke has been declared a ‘paranormal paradise’ by an article in the Britain Express and is, apparently, a hot spot both for…
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Six-Pint (or Ten-Pint) Smith
This legend concerns one John Smith, who would apparently turn up at the pub every day at noon and drink twelve half-pints of beer that…
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Bardney Abbey: Oswald and the Shaft of Light
In 697, the substantial abbey at Beardeneu (Bardney) received the relics of King Oswald of Northumbria, who had been killed in battle against King Penda…
● 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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