Boats (1579 pages found in this category)


Jean Lyon, Countess of Angus

Scottish countess named in North Berwick witch trials as consulting with witches

Jean Maxwell, sorceress

Scottish cunning woman convicted of pretending to practise witchcraft

Jennifer Westwood

British author, broadcaster and folklorist.

Jenny Greenteeth

Water spirit said to inhabit pools in Cheshire, Lancashire and Shropshire. If children venture too close, then she reaches out of the water and drags them in to their deaths.

Jenny Pipes

Redirected to ducking stool.

Jerome Caminada

19th-century police detective in Manchester, England. Caminada served with the police between 1868 and 1899, and has been called Manchester’s Sherlock Holmes.

Jerry Abershaw

18th-century English highwayman.

Jervaulx Abbey

Ruined Cistercian monastery and scheduled monument about one and a half miles (2.4 km) east of East Witton in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.

Jessie Saxby

Author and folklorist from Unst, one of the Shetland Islands of Scotland. She also had political interests and was a suffragette.

Jimmy Goggles the God

Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898, about a treasure hunter who because of his diving suit is mistaken for a god.