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Jack and the Day of the Fair
We love receiving original contributions of creative writing. Below, you’ll find a new addition to the Jack tale genre, sent to us by Peter Irons, who came along to our recent Folk Tale Day at Mrs Smith’s Cottage Museum, Navenby in February. This story is set in and on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds,…
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The Leaning Tower of Surfleet
The tower of St Lawrence’s Church, Surfleet leans towards the main road through the village, which straddles the River Glen.
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The Origins of the Wild Man of Stainfield?
In All Saints’ Church, Bigby, you can see a sixteenth-century alabaster Twywhitt family tomb, depicting a supplicant wild man of the woods, or wodewose. He is attached to a Tyrwhitt family legend…
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The Sebastopol Inn
A local legend has it that a soldier returned from the Crimean War (1853-6), got drunk at the pub, and drowned in a dyke as he made his way home.
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This Ubiquitous Ghost
The ubiquitous ghost in question – which I find my work now haunted by – is known regionally as Black Shuck, Gytrash, Barguest, Moddey Dhoo, Padfoot and Skriker: broadly, the Black Dog. Typically identified as a black canine that might originally appear as a normal dog, but in some way shows itself to be something…
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The Leaning Tower of Dry Doddington
Our research hasn’t discovered many extant folk tales in this part of the county, as you might have noticed from the map. However, the pretty hilltop village of Dry Doddington has the makings of one.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 