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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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…
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Crazy Kate, the Witch of Swineshead
‘Crazy Kate’, the woman on whom this legend is based, was probably, like most ‘witches’, simply a slightly reclusive woman to whom the locals took…
● 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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