Folklore & folklorists

Shrew of Kentish Town

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Church of Scotland minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist.

Roads that once provided the means of transporting the dead to churchyards for burial.

A female spirit in Irish and Scottish folklore whose wailing voice is heard before the death of a member of the family to which she is attached.

Brownie or spirit who worked in the mines of Northern England pushing wagons out of the mines, usually appearing as a blue light.

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Spirits also known as powries, said to haunt the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England.