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6
   Max & Mabel Peacock,
The Peacock Lincolnshire Word Books 1884–1920
, p.57.

  
7
   
Lincolnshire Life
, dialect story, August 1998, p.41.

  
8
   Alfred Lord Tennyson,
A Critical Edition of the Major Works
, p.376, 377.

  
9
   
The Lincolnshire Poacher
, autumn 2002, p.49.

10
   Marc Alexander,
British Folklore Myths and Legends
, p.179.

11
   
Lincolnshire Magazine
, July/August 1935, p.165.

12
   
Lincolnshire Magazine
, May/June 1937, p.151.

13
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.424.

14
   John Ayto and Ian Crofton’s
Brewer’s Britain and Ireland
, p.668.

15
   Jack Yates and Henry Thorold,
Lincolnshire, A Shell Guide
, as cited in Judith Spelman’s collection of prose and poetry,
Lincolnshire Bedside Book
, p.12.

16
   Taken from Daniel Defoe’s
A tour through England and Wales, Vol.2
, 1724, when he was apparently travelling that way in beginning of eighteenth century. Cited by Judith Spelman in her collection of prose and poetry,
Lincolnshire Bedside Book
, p.66.

One: The Devil and His Serpent

  
1
   
Lincolnshire Life
magazine, October 1999, p.70.

  
2
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
.

  
3
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
, p.71.

  
4
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.65.

  
5
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.vi.

  
6
   Quote from Thomas Fuller,
The History of the Worthies of England Vol.ii
, as cited on
www.books.google.com

  
7
   H.J. Kesson,
The Legend of the Lincoln Imp
.

  
8
   
Lincolnshire Life
, November 1998, p.53.

  
9
   Adrian Gray,
Tales of Old Lincolnshire
, p.22.

10
   
Lincolnshire Life
, May 1998, p.19.

11
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.64.

12
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.77.

13
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.43.

14
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.88.

15
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.42.

16
   Revelations 12: 7–9, The Bible.

17
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
, p.56.

18
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
, p.67.

19
   Quote taken from Gough’s
Camden, Vol.1
, p.274. Cited in
The Lincolnshire Magazine
July/August 1935, p.164.

20
   Christopher Marlowe,
Legends of the Fenland People
, p.57.

21
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.17.

22
   Adrian Gray,
Tales of Old Lincolnshire
, p.95.

23
   Ralph Whitlock,
Here Be Dragons
, p.44.

24
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.34.

25
   Isaiah 27:1, The Bible.

26
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.43.

Two: The Wet And Wilds

  
1
   
See
Rex Needle’s website:
www.homepages.which.net

  
2
   ibid.

  
3
   Judith Spelman,
Lincolnshire Bedside Book: A Collection of Prose and Poetry
, p.13 quoted from Jack Yates and Henry Thorold,
Lincolnshire, A Shell Guide
.

  
4
   Christopher Marlowe,
Legends of the Fenland People
, p.11.

  
5
   Kenneth McLeish,
Myths & Folkstories of Britain & Ireland
, p.18.

  
6
   Jennifer Westwood,
Albion, A Guide to Legendary Britain
, p.183.

  
7
   Stewart Bennett,
A History of Lincolnshire
, p.85.

  
8
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.7.

  
9
   Adrian Gray,
Tales of Old Lincolnshire
, p.114.

10
   Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson,
The Penguin Book of Ghosts
, p.217.

11
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.68.

12
   Adrian Gray,
Tales of Old Lincolnshire
, p.54.

13
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.72.

14
   Elaine Kazimierczuk,
A Lincolnshire Notebook
, p.5.

15
   
Lincolnshire Life
, January 1998.

16
   
Lincolnshire Life
, June 1998, p.44.

17
   Christopher Marlowe,
Legends of the Fenland People
, p.199.

18
   John Goddard & Roger Spalding,
Fish ‘n’ Ships: The Rise and Fall of Grimsby – The World’s Premier Fishing Port
, p.43.

19
   
Lincolnshire Life
, October 1999, p.70.

20
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.7.

21
   D.C. Staveley in David N. Robinson’s,
The Book of the Lincolnshire Seaside
, p.139.

22
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.14.

23
   Katharine M. Briggs,
British Folk Tales and Legends, A Sampler
, p.215.

Three: Black Dogs and Strange Encounters

  
1
   Taken from Charlotte Brontë’s
Jane Eyre
, p.113/114.

  
2
   From Theo Brown,
The Black Dog, Folk-Lore
, 1958.
See
www.nli.northampton.ac.uk

  
3
   
See
www.paranormaldatabase.com

  
4
   Katharine M. Briggs,
British Folk Tales and Legends, A Sampler
, p.115.

  
5
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
The Black Dog
, p.113.

  
6
   Poem reproduced in Ethel Rudkin,
The Black Dog
, p.119/120, written by Muriel M. Andrew, entitled ‘The Legend of the Ghost in Bonny Wells Lane’.

  
7
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.93.

  
8
   
See
www.nli.northampton.ac.uk

  
9
   
See
www.lincolnshiregothic.blogspot.com

10
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.149.

11
   ibid, p.151.

12
   Christopher Marlowe,
Legends of the Fenland People
.

13
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.149.

14
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.65 & 240.

15
   Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson,
The Penguin Book of Ghosts
, p.218.

16
   
Lincolnshire Life
, December 1998, p.28.

17
   Jennifer Westwood,
Albion, A Guide to Legendary Britain
, p.209.

18
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.36/37.

Four: Giants and Heroes

  
1
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.11.

  
2
   Charles W. Whistler,
Havelok The Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
, p.117.

  
3
   Jennifer Westwood,
Albion, A Guide to Legendary Britain
, p.191.

  
4
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.60.

  
5
   
Lincolnshire Life
, April 1998, p.26.

  
6
   
See
www.hiddenea.com

  
7
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.155.

  
8
   ibid, p.16.

  
9
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
, p.64.

10
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.323.

11
   Adrian Gray,
Tales of Old Lincolnshire
, p.118.

12
   Peter Rex,
Hereward, The Last Englishman
, p.33.

13
   ibid, p.26.

14
   
See
www.robinhoodloxley.net

15
   Peter Rex,
Hereward, The Last Englishman
, p.58.

16
   Christopher Marlowe,
Legends of the Fenland People
, p.40.

17
   Peter Rex,
Hereward, The Last Englishman
, p.67.

Five: Things that go Bump in the Lincolnshire Night

  
1
   
See
www.unexplained-mysteries.com

  
2
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
, p.34.
Tittuppin’
means going up and down or backwards and forwards.

  
3
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.88/94.

  
4
   
The Lincolnshire Magazine
, July/August 1935, p.165.

  
5
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.94.
See
also
www.orpheusweb.co.uk

  
6
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
, p.29.

  
7
   
Lincolnshire Life
, January 1994, p.10.

  
8
   Roy Fisk,
Lincolnshire Medley
, p.102.

  
9
   From
The Gentleman’s Magazine
, Vol.130 (1821). Extract of description given by Mr Gervase Hollis (from Grimsby) about 1640 (Harleian MSS No.6829 p.162).

10
   
See
www.rodcollins.com

11
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
, p.30.

12
   Christopher Marlowe,
Legends of the Fenland People
, p.189.

13
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.50.

14
   Polly Howat,
Ghosts & Legends of Lincolnshire & The Fen Country
, p.79.

15
   
See
Daniel Codd’s website:
www.urbanlincs.co.uk

16
   
Lincolnshire Life
, September 1998, p.70.

17
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.50.

18
   
The Lincolnshire Magazine
, May/June 1934, p.362.

19
   
Lincolnshire Life
magazine, October 1998, p.70.

Six: Witchcraft and Cunning

  
1
   
See
www.bibliotecapleyades.net

  
2
   Ethel H. Rudkin,
Lincolnshire Folklore
.

  
3
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.96.

  
4
   Daniel Codd,
Mysterious Lincolnshire
, p.50.

  
5
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.91/197. ‘Eyespell’ is presumably some sort of curse, although not fully explained.

  
6
   Mrs Gutch and Mabel Peacock,
Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning Lincolnshire
, p.97.

  
7
   Katharine M. Briggs,
British Folk Tales and Legends, A Sampler
, p.304.

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