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The Bolingbroke Hare
In the seventeenth century, stories abounded that a hare at Bolingbroke Castle was a transformed witch who had once been imprisoned there. In many accounts, the hare in question is white…
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The Vanished Bugler
It used to be received wisdom that a subterranean passage ran between Kirkstead Abbey and Tattershall Castle, nearly three miles to the south.
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‘Paranormal Paradise’: St Botolph’s Skidbrooke
This large redundant church near Skidbrooke has been declared a ‘paranormal paradise’ by an article in the Britain Express and is, apparently, a hot spot both for forces of the beyond and their fervent worshippers. The same article claims sightings of a ghost monk…
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Six-Pint (or Ten-Pint) Smith
This legend concerns one John Smith, who would apparently turn up at the pub every day at noon and drink twelve half-pints of beer that had been lined up for him before the clock had finished chiming the hour…
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Bardney Abbey: Oswald and the Shaft of Light
In 697, the substantial abbey at Beardeneu (Bardney) received the relics of King Oswald of Northumbria, who had been killed in battle against King Penda of Mercia in 642. As Oswald had once ruled…
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Brigg Fair
This is a famous folk song, first collected in 1908 by Australian folk song collector and composer Percy Grainger. Grainger recorded Lincolnshire folk singer Joseph Taylor singing the song (and several others) on wax cylinder in 1907, when Taylor was in his mid-seventies; it is the earliest known recording of a folk singer.
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 