Hampshire and Isle of Wight Folk Tales by O'Leary, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Map Introduction One: Ytene: The Forest

The Blood-Red King of Canterton Glen The White Stag The Bisterne Dragon Jump to Glory Jane

Two: Southampton

King Cnut The Legend of Sir Bevois The Buried Shirt

Three: Dystopia – betwixt Southampton and Portsmouth

The Green Lady of Hedge End Kate Hunt, the Witch of Curdridge A Phantom of Combustion Three Stone Copse Short Road Tales of Sandy Lane The Waltham Blacks

Four: Portsmouth

Spicer’s Skull A Portsmouth Welcome Riots and the Gallows The Corking Up of Jack the Painter Commander Crabb

Five: The Meon Valley

Sixpenny Moses and Tanglefoot Toop St Wilfrid Betty Mundy’s Bottom The Church with no Name Old Winchester Hill

Six: Winchester

Sleepers Hill Orfeo and the King under Twyford Down Tales of St Swithun Straightforward Work

Seven: The Test Valley

Ethelfleda of Rum’s Eg Deadman’s Plack The Wherwell Cockatrice The Rarey Bird The Detectorist’s Story

Eight: The Far North

Chute’s Broadway Combe Gibbet The Devil’s Highway Onion and the Imp Tadley God Help Us The Man in the Moon and the Broomsquire Cricket, Single-Stick Wrestling and Bare-Knuckle Boxing A Highwayman’s Heath The Treasure of the Basingstoke Canal The Blackwaterbeat

Nine: The Isle of Wight

Cork Heads How the Island got its Name The Story of St Arwald Stories of St Boniface The Mysterious Hermit of the Crystal Well The Giant of Blackgang Chine The Pied Piper of Francheville The Building of Godshill Church The Phantom Party The King’s Head Michael Morey’s Hump Tales of Benjamin Snuddon The Queen of Chantilly Peace, Love and Latrines

Postscript Bibliography