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Oud Taales Toud Ower Agean: Mabel Peacock, giving traditional stories a Lincolnshire twist
In two of her books of dialect fiction, the folklorist Mabel Peacock (b. Bottesford, 1856; d. Kirton Lindsey, 1920) includes several reworkings of traditional folktales. Her retellings are worth considering because she is a skilled storyteller in her own right, and allows herself to be unfaithful to her sources; it’s also interesting that none of…
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South Holland Shush
From Sutton St James to Fosdyke Bridge and back is a regular bike-outing for me: up to Long Sutton, through Lutton, up to Gedney Drove End, along to Dawsmere, then Holbeach St Matthew, Holbeach St Marks, Middle Marsh Road, and finally a neat little bike track beside the A17 to the Yacht Haven, where I…
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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?
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 