Folklore & folklorists (28 pages found in this category)


Redcap

Evil fairies said to live in the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England.

Robert Kirk

Church of Scotland minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist.

Shrew of Kentish Town

Redirected to Jinney Bingham, Mother Damnable

Swarth

Redirected to Fetch.

Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Master of Glamis (born 1821)

The official record states that Thomas Lyon-Bowes died shortly after his birth, but rumours have circulated that he was born horribly deformed and raised in a secret room in Glamis Castle, the so-called Monster of Glamis.

Tom Tildrum

Redirected to King o' the cats.

Waff

Redirected to Fetch.

Walter Traill Dennison

Orcadian folklorist and antiquarian