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A Witch of Kirton in Lindsey
A servant we had from the neighbourhood of Kirton Lindsey [sic], North Line. told me when her mother was confined [pregnant], a man in the village “witched her,” so that she could not move in bed, nor could the bed be moved until the man came and “unwitched her”
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Don’t Be Frit
Rory Waterman, who leads the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project, discusses what planted the seed.
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Breathing Life into Lost Things
Hollie, the author of (among other things) The Bleeding Tree: A Pathway Through Grief Guided by Forests, Folk Tales and the Ritual Year (Rider/Ebury, 2023), discusses the importance of Lincolnshire’s folk heritage to her writing.
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Meg’s Island
Cleethorpes is often referred to as Meggies, and it is a word you’ll see written around town. Meggy (or sometimes Meggie) is also a locally-known demonym for a person from Cleethorpes. But why?
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Anthology Spotlight: Fee Griffin
From the fishing heritage of Grimsby to the nutty notes of the haslet, Fee Griffin discusses her connection to Lincolnshire, her writing style, and her interest in folklore. Look out for Griffin’s unconventional contribution to the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined anthology.
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Ghost Child
In Scandals and Legends of Barton-upon-Humber, Book 2: Ghosts, Money and Love (1999), Karen Maitland and Jeannie Bishop tell the story, well known locally, of the ghost of a little boy at Providence House (until quite recently used as the town library). ‘The supernatural activity always increases each year’, they write, ‘in the few days…
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