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Category Archives: Folklore & folklorists

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Powrie

Dec 4, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists, Mythical & legendary creaturesNot on Wikipedia, Redirect

Redirected to Dunter.

Dunter

Dec 4, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists, Mythical & legendary creaturesNot on Wikipedia

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

Redcap

Dec 3, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists, Mythical & legendary creaturesBetter than Wikipedia

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

Fetch

Sep 4, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists, Mythical & legendary creaturesBetter than Wikipedia

Apparition in the form of a double of a living person, often a portent of death.

Mermaid of Zennor

Aug 10, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists

Mermaid who enticed a chorister from the local parish church to live with her in the sea.

Tom Tildrum

Aug 6, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folkloristsRedirect

Redirected to King o’ the cats.

King of the cats

Aug 6, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folkloristsBetter than Wikipedia

Folk tales about the king of a society of talking cats.

Emic and etic

Jun 29, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folkloristsBetter than Wikipedia

Emic and etic are terms used to describe two different kinds of field research in a wide field of studies, from the view of the insider or the observer respectively.

Jinney Bingham, Mother Damnable

Jun 21, 2020Georgie DarcyFolklore & folklorists, WitchesNot on Wikipedia

17th-century woman also known as Mother Red Cap and the Shrew of Kentish Town, suspected of being a witch, a murderer and poisoner.

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

Dec 16, 2019Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists

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.

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