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British Lore and Legend

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A Pigeon for the Prisoner
Bad Bobby Bannister
Black Annis
Black Shuck
Bladud and the Springs
Bowermans Nose
Brave Man of Balsham
Brutus of Troy
Bury’s Devilish Schoolboys
Chesterfield’s Crooked Spire
Corineus King of Cornwall
Coventry Godcakes
Dandos Dogs - St Germans
Deerhurst’s Dragon
Dick Whittington
Double Discretion at Coity Castle
Druids
Dunvegans Fairy Flag
Edward the Confessor cures the blind woodcutter
Eilmer the Eagle
Finn McCool and the Giant’s Causeway
Gautier de la Salle
Glamis Ghouls
Gog and Magog
Green Lady of Crathes Castle
Grimsby’s Romantic Origin
Haunted Culzean Castle
Hereward the Wake
Herne the Hunter
Irelands Vampire Legend,
Jenny Greenteeth
King Alfred Burns the Cakes
King Alfred's Blowing Stone
Knights beyond the Iron Gates
Lady Godiva
Lincolns Legendary Imp
Loch Ness Monster
Lyminster Knucker
Maud and the Dragon
Morridge’s Murderous Mermaid
Mother Shipton
Mr.
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Murder in the Red Barn - Polstead
Nimue Traps Merlin
Old Mother Redcap
Ossian the Giant
Peg Powler
Pwyll and Rhiannon
Reynardine
Robin Hood
Sawney Bean
Spring-Heeled Jack
The Barghest
The Dancers of Stanton Drew
The Deadly Dog of Peel Castle
The Devil in Marston Moretaine
The Devil Takes Colonel Sydney
The Devil’s Footprints
The Diamond Heart, King's Lynn
The drowned bride of Armboth
The Duergar Dwarves of Northumberland
The Fair-Minded Fairies of Guernsey
The Fairies of Burrow Hill
The Giant of Cerne Abbas
The Glastonbury Thorn
The Haunted Battlefield of Culloden
The Highgate Vampire
The Lambton Worm
The Le Strange Tale of Hunstanton's Haunted Carpet
The Legend of Bosham's Bell
The Legend of Drakes Drum
The Legend of Guy of Warwick
The Legend of King Arthur
The Legend of St Osyth
The Long Man of Wilmington
The Lost Giants of Unst
The Monster of Glamis Castle
The Moonrakers
The Newbury Coat
The Pedlar of Swaffham
The Pendle Witches
The Pied Piper of Newtown
The Pixies of Ottery St Mary
The Princes in the Tower
The Saffron Walden Cockatrice
The Swan, the Dog, and the Crusader
The Trows of Orkney
The White Horse of Uffington
The Wise Men of Gotham
The Witch of Wookey Hole
The Witches of Belvoir
The Witches of Warboys
The Wizard of Yester and the Colstoun Pear
The Wrekin Giant
Tiddy Mun
Tom Hickathrift
Twm Sion Cati - The Happy Highwayman
Veryan’s Devil-Free Roundhouses
Yallery Brown

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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy - Thomas Carlyle
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Mayflower lands - 1620, IRA Bomb Birmingham - 1974
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