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The Dead Moon
The moon comes down to the Carrs to investigate the evil spirits that inhabit the place on moonless nights, but slips and is trapped, managing only to shine a path for a man who is lost before she falls down in exhaustion. Bogles and will-o-the-wykes (will-o-the-wisps) hide and guard her, in some versions burying her…
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Crazy Kate, the Witch of Swineshead
‘Crazy Kate’, the woman on whom this legend is based, was probably, like most ‘witches’, simply a slightly reclusive woman to whom the locals took a dislike, encouraged by their disposition towards superstition…
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The Dead Hand
A mischievous but likeable young lad called Tom Pattison refuses to take precautions against the evil spirits and boggarts lurking in the Carrs. Ignoring the advice of everyone he meets, he sets off across the Carrs on the darkest night of the year with only a lantern and not even the protection of the safe-keep…
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Tiddy Mun
Tiddy Mun (i.e. ‘small man’ who was, according to the tale, ‘wi’out a name’) was said to be a white-bearded boggart the size of a toddler, who lived in the marshy Carrs of the Ancholme Valley, and would come out at night dressed in grey and laugh like a peewit…
Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project 