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.
Get the project anthology, Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined, published in March 2025 and featuring many of Lincolnshire’s finest writers reimagining local folk tales.
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What happens when folk tales and coffee come together? Rory Waterman finds out by talking to Seven Districts Coffee founder Ben Southall.
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William of Lindholme
William is accused of selling his soul to the Devil. Legend has it that he agreed to construct a causeway across the wetlands from Lindholme…
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The Wild Man of Stainfield
A ‘wild man’ allegedly once lived in the woods near Stainfield, and would make raids to kill the locals and their livestock. Variations of the…
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The Drake Stone
Outside Anwick’s church, a plough horse vanished in quicksand, and a drake flew out in its place. The following day, a boulder shaped like a…
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The Dead Moon
The moon comes down to the Carrs to investigate the evil spirits that inhabit the place on moonless nights, but slips and is trapped, managing…
● 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.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 