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Forgotten Photos from a Forgotten County
Rory Waterman I’m not a ‘guest writer’, I’ll confess: I was the project lead on the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project during its funded period, and now keep the website going on my own. But please excuse the indulgence. My new book, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in England’s Forgotten County, is published…
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THE BURIED MOON OF THE CARRS
by Alister Walker King Introduction This piece reimagines the traditional Lincolnshire tale ‘The Buried Moon’, relocating it firmly within the Carrs and wetland landscapes of the Ancholme Valley. Rather than retelling the story as a fixed folklore fragment, it approaches it as a living myth—one shaped by the land itself, where water, mist, and peat…
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Mapping Folklore: From Lincolnshire Byways to Spatial Hypertext
Dr Anna Milon Anna was the Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project throughout its AHRC-funded duration, from February 2024 until July 2025. She is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate on Project StoryMachine, so this is a ‘guest post’, but also not quite a guest post! The hamlet of Byard’s Leap, just off…
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Ciapek
Is a wholly true story a folk tale? Well, no, not according to most definitions – but what if that story involves a folk hero? And what if that folk hero isn’t human, and is personified in literary accounts, requiring extrapolation akin to that common in legends? Ciapek was a small stray dog found near…
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Old Mother Nightshade
Old Mother Nightshade was a witch, feared by all apart from the young and foolish John Culpepper, who sought her counsel after being rejected by a potential lover. She gives him a box of sweetmeats to present to the girl, and tells him to return in three days’ time…
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The Lad who Went Looking for Fools
This story tells of a young man called Jack, due to marry a young woman called Polly. One day, he finds mother, father and daughter in tears: there is a well in the garden, and the three are terrified that, should Jack and Polly have a child, it will fall in and drown…
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