CONTENTS

      Title

      About the Authors and Artists

      Acknowledgements

  1  Welcome!

  2  The Phantom Voice, Southport

  3  Sir Lancelot and Sir Tarquin, Martin Mere

  4  The Eagle and Child, Parbold, Ormskirk

  5  The Devil’s Wall, Aughton, Ormskirk

  6  Liverpool Legends

  7  Tales of Bewsey Hall, Warrington

  8  The Song of Warrikin Fair, Warrington

  9  Manchester Battles

10  Sir Elias Gigas, The Giant of Worsley

11  The Skull House, Wardley Hall, Salford

12  Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy

13  Tales from Middleton

14  Tales from the Borough of Rochdale

15  Fair Ellen of Radcliffe

16  The Devil in the Fireplace, Bury Grammar School

17  The Unsworth Dragon, Bury

18  The Lancashire Boggarts

19  The Bloody Footprint, Smithills Hall

20  Mab’s Cross Tales, Wigan

21  The de Hoghtons of Hoghton Tower

22  John Dee, Walton-le-Dale, Preston

23  The Preston Guild Merchant

24  The Battle of Preston

25  Traditions and Superstitions from the Fylde

26  Witchcraft and Persecution, Lancaster

27  The Perils of a Journey ‘Oversands’

28  The Dun Cow of Parlick, Bleasdale

29  The Dule Upo’ Dun, Waddington

30  Spooky Tales from Clitheroe

31  Lady Sybil and the Milk White Doe, Sabden

      Notes on the Tales

      Bibliography

      Copyright