The Book of English Folk Tales by Marshall, Sybil -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction The Supernatural

The Little People Seeing Is Believing ‘Aye, We’re Flitting’ The Farmer and the Bogle Jeanie, the Bogle of Mulgrave Wood Visions of Fairies The Weardale Fairies The White Cap The Devil St Dunstan and the Devil The Black Monk’s Curse The Devil’s Armful Old Nick Is a Gentleman Omens, Warnings and Fetches The Wild Huntsman The Phantom Coach The Mysterious Cannon Ball The Fairy Fetch Ghosts The Ghost of Lady Hobby Herne the Hunter ‘Gold, Ezekiel! Gold!’ Unquiet Spirits and Spectral Beasts John Tregeagle Dick o’ Tunstead The White Rabbit Giants A Yorkshire Giant Bolster and Jecholiah Place Memory Time to Think The Phantom Army of Flowers Barrow Knight to Knight The Legend of Lyulph’s Tower

The Relics of History

Saints and Martyrs England’s First Martyr Edmund the Holy St Eustace’s Well Ednoth’s Relics, and Thurkill’s Beard Witchcraft The Witches of Tring Lynching a Witch Possessed by the Devil Ways of Getting a Living The Vicar of Germsoe The Wrecker of Sennen Cove Bury Me in England ‘A beautiful lady whose name it was Ruth’ The Smuggler’s Bride Jack o’ Both Sides or The Biter Bit The Hand of Glory The Religious O Horrid Dede! Good Sir Thomas and Friar John Causes Célèbres, High and Low The Gilstone Ghost Truth, and Murder, Will Out

Localities, Origins and Causes

Etiological Tales The Rollright Stones The Hurlers The Parson and the Clerk The Wedding at Stanton Drew Notable Characters Jack o’ Legs William Wake of Wareham Old Mother Shipton God on Our Side Sir Andrew Barton Nine Days’ Wonders T’Girt Dog of Ennerdale The Campden Wonder The Boar of Eskdale

Fabulous Beasts

The Devil’s Own The Laidley Worm of Spindlestone Heugh Mathey Trewella

Domestic and Simpleton Tales

The Last Word ‘Get up and bar the door’ Wise Men Three The Twelfth Man Numbskull’s Errand

Moral Tales

Belling the Cat Simmer Water Wild Darrell The Marriage of Sir Gawaine