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Nocton Hall Ghosts
Nocton Hall (a ruin since it burned down in mysterious circumstances in 2004) is a nineteenth-century country house built on the site of a fifteenth-century country house, itself built in the once-extensive grounds of a dissolved medieval priory…
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The Metheringham Lass
A variant of the ‘phantom hitchhiker’ contemporary legend, common in twentieth-century and contemporary folklore concerning ghosts. The ghost of a young woman is said to flag down unsuspecting motorists at night, on a road adjacent to the former RAF Metheringham…
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The Centurion & the Witch
According to this tale, a Centurion was marching his men along the Roman Ermine Street, towards what we call Newport Arch, the north gate of the city (incidentally the only Roman arch in Britain that is still open to traffic), when his horse suddenly refused to proceed…
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Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb is the famous hero of a comical fairytale, common in England since at least the early seventeenth century. It begins with a woman’s wish to have a son even if he is no bigger than her husband’s thumb, which is duly granted, and the story follows his subsequent escapades…
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Tattercoats
A rich, old lord, who lived in a palace by the sea, had no living wife or children, but he did have a granddaughter. However, as his favourite daughter had died during childbirth, he swore never to look after his granddaughter, and not even to look at her. The girl therefore grew up impoverished
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The Farmer and the Boggart
Tales abound in which the Devil, or a boggart, are duped in competitions involving the harvesting of crops. The farmer suggests one takes what grows above ground and the other what grows beneath. The boggart agrees…
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 