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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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…
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The Dead Hand
A mischievous but likeable young lad called Tom Pattison refuses to take precautions against the evil spirits and boggarts lurking in the Carrs. Ignoring the…
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Tiddy Mun
Tiddy Mun (i.e. ‘small man’ who was, according to the tale, ‘wi’out a name’) was said to be a white-bearded boggart the size of a…
● 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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