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Billy Shuffler & the Witches
A small boy is stolen by witches, ‘to be boiled in their cauldrons for the purpose of making charms of his bones’…
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The Thornton Abbey Ghost Monk
The skeleton of fourteenth-century abbot Thomas de Gretham is said to have been discovered in the 1830s, sitting at a table in a bricked-up alcove, before an open book, with a pen and ink beside it. According to legend…
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The Irby Boggle
On 1 November 1455, All Saints’ Day, betrothed couple Neville Randall and Rosamund Guy allegedly met in this beauty spot, and Rosamund was murdered by her fiancé. Both went missing, and stories arose that he had murdered her and fled.
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Fiddler Fynes
This legend concerns a wise man known as Fiddler Fynes. A farmer is robbed, and approaches the wiseman asking for help to find the robber. The wiseman tells the farmer to look into a mirror, and he will see the thief’s face…
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Sam’l’s Ghost
A young man called Samuel has burned to death, but his spirit rises, and hears a voice tell him to enter the earth, so a big worm can eat him and he can rest in peace. He does so, somehow, and finds himself in a stinking hole where a great worm is coiled on a…
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Coat o’ Clay
A lad goes to see a wise woman to get advice: his folks say he is a fool, and he wants to be wise, so he asks her what he should do. She tells him he will be a fool all his days until he finds a coat of clay…
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 