Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project
@lincsfolk.bsky.social
Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures - funded 2/2024-7/25 by the Arts & Humanities Research Council at Nottingham Trent University. Website http://lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com.
Excellent! And what else do we see here? Two books by fellow contributor Robert Etty, a Candlestick Press pamphlet edited by another, Alison Brackenbury...
Newly spotted and signed by yours truly; the last copy of the LINCOLNSHIRE FOLK TALES ANTHOLOGY: REIMAGINED by @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social and @rorywaterman.bsky.social, to which I contributed my piece ‘THE HOOD’
Safe and secure in The Rabbit Hole bookshop, Brigg, North Lincs.
Safe and secure in The Rabbit Hole bookshop, Brigg, North Lincs.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Excellent! And what else do we see here? Two books by fellow contributor Robert Etty, a Candlestick Press pamphlet edited by another, Alison Brackenbury...
The outstanding folk musician Ruairidh Grieg has recorded this new rendition of the legend of the Lincoln Imp. See his notes below the video to learn more!
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The Lincoln Imp's Day Off
YouTube video by Ruairidh Greig
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August 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The outstanding folk musician Ruairidh Grieg has recorded this new rendition of the legend of the Lincoln Imp. See his notes below the video to learn more!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2I7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2I7...
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#ThrowbackThursday
Folklorist Ethel Rudkin as a young woman, c.1910. Rudkin dedicated her life to preserving and promoting Lincolnshire folklore, folk music, archaeology and social history.
#throwbackmemories #Throwback #Rudkin #Scunthorpe #Museum #Folk #Folklore #History #LocalHistory
Folklorist Ethel Rudkin as a young woman, c.1910. Rudkin dedicated her life to preserving and promoting Lincolnshire folklore, folk music, archaeology and social history.
#throwbackmemories #Throwback #Rudkin #Scunthorpe #Museum #Folk #Folklore #History #LocalHistory
July 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#ThrowbackThursday
Folklorist Ethel Rudkin as a young woman, c.1910. Rudkin dedicated her life to preserving and promoting Lincolnshire folklore, folk music, archaeology and social history.
#throwbackmemories #Throwback #Rudkin #Scunthorpe #Museum #Folk #Folklore #History #LocalHistory
Folklorist Ethel Rudkin as a young woman, c.1910. Rudkin dedicated her life to preserving and promoting Lincolnshire folklore, folk music, archaeology and social history.
#throwbackmemories #Throwback #Rudkin #Scunthorpe #Museum #Folk #Folklore #History #LocalHistory
Have you ever tried giving a boggart kombucha? We did!
Rory and Anna ceremonially close off the AHRC-funded Lincolnshire Folk Tales project at NTU by thanking Tiddy Mun, the spirit of flooded landscapes, on River Glen in Surfleet. Watch & read in full on our IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DMLvern...
Rory and Anna ceremonially close off the AHRC-funded Lincolnshire Folk Tales project at NTU by thanking Tiddy Mun, the spirit of flooded landscapes, on River Glen in Surfleet. Watch & read in full on our IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DMLvern...
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July 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Have you ever tried giving a boggart kombucha? We did!
Rory and Anna ceremonially close off the AHRC-funded Lincolnshire Folk Tales project at NTU by thanking Tiddy Mun, the spirit of flooded landscapes, on River Glen in Surfleet. Watch & read in full on our IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DMLvern...
Rory and Anna ceremonially close off the AHRC-funded Lincolnshire Folk Tales project at NTU by thanking Tiddy Mun, the spirit of flooded landscapes, on River Glen in Surfleet. Watch & read in full on our IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DMLvern...
7 Districts Coffee offers a brew with a side of #folklore. Read Rory's interview with owner Ben Southall: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/07/16/f...
Fabulous Coffee
What happens when folk tales and coffee come together? Rory Waterman finds out by talking to Seven Districts Coffee founder Ben Southall.
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July 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
7 Districts Coffee offers a brew with a side of #folklore. Read Rory's interview with owner Ben Southall: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/07/16/f...
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Want to hear more about @lincsfolk.bsky.social ? Come to our free online #storytelling workshop Wed 16 July 12-1.30 with Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social and @rorywaterman.bsky.social plus @sabinelittle.bsky.social from Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told: www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...
July 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Want to hear more about @lincsfolk.bsky.social ? Come to our free online #storytelling workshop Wed 16 July 12-1.30 with Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social and @rorywaterman.bsky.social plus @sabinelittle.bsky.social from Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told: www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...
Superb poet and Lincs native @abrackenbury.bsky.social discusses VILLAGE, her new prose book about Willoughton, on our guest writers' page:
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lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/06/30/t...
The Village Behind the Folklore
A young girl running into a kitchen with an armful of ‘may’ blossom so terrifies her grandmother that the old woman would hurl her back across the threshold, if she were not so lame. Is this in the…
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July 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Superb poet and Lincs native @abrackenbury.bsky.social discusses VILLAGE, her new prose book about Willoughton, on our guest writers' page:
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/06/30/t...
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/06/30/t...
This unassuming marker in roadside meadowsweet, hogweed, thistles and nettles near Cadeby marks the location of a Victorian tragedy, long connected to a ghost story. 1/3
July 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This unassuming marker in roadside meadowsweet, hogweed, thistles and nettles near Cadeby marks the location of a Victorian tragedy, long connected to a ghost story. 1/3
@abrackenbury.bsky.social wrote us an evocative guest post about her nonfiction book 'Village', now available to buy! Alison gives space to some of Lincolnshire's choicest tales and their tellers: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/06/30/t...
July 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
@abrackenbury.bsky.social wrote us an evocative guest post about her nonfiction book 'Village', now available to buy! Alison gives space to some of Lincolnshire's choicest tales and their tellers: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/06/30/t...
To what did the monks of Crowland Abbey owe their good fortune? To a bridge across a ghost river, of course. More Crowland stories, including where to find an alleged Saint's skull are on our website.
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June 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
To what did the monks of Crowland Abbey owe their good fortune? To a bridge across a ghost river, of course. More Crowland stories, including where to find an alleged Saint's skull are on our website.
www.instagram.com/reel/DLhRAad...
www.instagram.com/reel/DLhRAad...
A wild man of the woods, or wodewose, on the tomb of Katherine Baroness Willoughby D’Eresby (d.1580) and Richard Bertie in St James’s church, Spilsby. Another Lincolnshire wild man has stories attached to him, and perhaps another carving on a tomb:
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/12/t...
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June 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A wild man of the woods, or wodewose, on the tomb of Katherine Baroness Willoughby D’Eresby (d.1580) and Richard Bertie in St James’s church, Spilsby. Another Lincolnshire wild man has stories attached to him, and perhaps another carving on a tomb:
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/12/t...
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/12/t...
To all our new followers, a warm WELCOME! Check out lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com for folk tales, events, and storied places to visit. And a quick request, please tell us what you think so we can keep doing what we do: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
To all our new followers, a warm WELCOME! Check out lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com for folk tales, events, and storied places to visit. And a quick request, please tell us what you think so we can keep doing what we do: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Last year Anna explored the custom of rantanning - a form of social censure known across Europe, that persisted in Lincolnshire longer than elsewhere. Take up your pots and pans, ready your clogs and a straw dummy, and follow us to learn all about it: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/04/25/r...
Rantanning
Ran-tan-ning or Ran-tan-tan, an onomatopoeically named custom of delivering folk justice to disproportionately violent members of a community (here, a domestic abuser). Ethel Rudkin records it Holt…
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June 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Last year Anna explored the custom of rantanning - a form of social censure known across Europe, that persisted in Lincolnshire longer than elsewhere. Take up your pots and pans, ready your clogs and a straw dummy, and follow us to learn all about it: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/04/25/r...
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FREE CFRC online storytelling workshop 16 July led by Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social and Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social of the @lincsfolk.bsky.social study and Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social of Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told! Details👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...
www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...
CFRC Storytelling Workshop: Who Owns the Tales We Tell?
Free online workshop on 16th July, 12.00 - 1.30pm with storytelling experts from Nottingham Trent University and The University of Sheffield
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June 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
FREE CFRC online storytelling workshop 16 July led by Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social and Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social of the @lincsfolk.bsky.social study and Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social of Traditional Tales, Untraditionally Told! Details👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...
www.eventbrite.com/e/cfrc-story...
We have two new events for JULY up on our website - check them out: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/events-works...
Events & Workshops
Scroll through! All project events are free. Click individual event links to read more information about forthcoming events, and to book your tickets. More events TBC! Check back again soon. Calend…
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June 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We have two new events for JULY up on our website - check them out: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/events-works...
With the stunning weather we're having, why not revisit some walking routes that take you through Lincolnshire's folk tale locations? lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/07/06/w... Have a favourite folklore route of your own? Get in touch lincolnshirefolktales@gmail.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
With the stunning weather we're having, why not revisit some walking routes that take you through Lincolnshire's folk tale locations? lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/07/06/w... Have a favourite folklore route of your own? Get in touch lincolnshirefolktales@gmail.com
At night, and just occasionally, do candles appear to flicker inside the All Saints', Holbeach? Eh?
See our folk tale map to learn about an alleged incident that spawned a flurry of poems in the nineteenth century, and another just this year:
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/20/t...
See our folk tale map to learn about an alleged incident that spawned a flurry of poems in the nineteenth century, and another just this year:
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/20/t...
June 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
At night, and just occasionally, do candles appear to flicker inside the All Saints', Holbeach? Eh?
See our folk tale map to learn about an alleged incident that spawned a flurry of poems in the nineteenth century, and another just this year:
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/20/t...
See our folk tale map to learn about an alleged incident that spawned a flurry of poems in the nineteenth century, and another just this year:
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/20/t...
Threekingham: a beautiful village nestled under an ancient crossroads. But what’s in a name? lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/05/02/t...
Three Kings
Threekingham is an unusual name, and an incorrect etymology has long been attached to it, as is not uncommon with place names that are unusual – especially when those names so obviously seem …
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June 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Threekingham: a beautiful village nestled under an ancient crossroads. But what’s in a name? lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2025/05/02/t...
June 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The legend of the Wild Man of Stainfield is discussed by project lead @rorywaterman.bsky.social (who accidentally says fifteenth, not sixteenth, century – but never mind!)
in this episode of BBC Secret Lincolnshire.
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in this episode of BBC Secret Lincolnshire.
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June 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The legend of the Wild Man of Stainfield is discussed by project lead @rorywaterman.bsky.social (who accidentally says fifteenth, not sixteenth, century – but never mind!)
in this episode of BBC Secret Lincolnshire.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
in this episode of BBC Secret Lincolnshire.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Manwar Ings (aka Manwar Rings), near Swineshead: an intriguing, easily-visited earthwork that is at least medieval and, well…
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/06/c...
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June 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Manwar Ings (aka Manwar Rings), near Swineshead: an intriguing, easily-visited earthwork that is at least medieval and, well…
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/06/c...
lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/06/c...
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THE SEVEN COUNTY WITCH HUNTS
A new 6-part mini-series from the Folklore Podcast, with @witchesetc.bsky.social and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social
EPISODE 1: METHODS AND STORIES
Listen free, and learn more, at
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/seven-county...
Follow the project @witches7hunt.bsky.social
A new 6-part mini-series from the Folklore Podcast, with @witchesetc.bsky.social and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social
EPISODE 1: METHODS AND STORIES
Listen free, and learn more, at
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/seven-county...
Follow the project @witches7hunt.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
THE SEVEN COUNTY WITCH HUNTS
A new 6-part mini-series from the Folklore Podcast, with @witchesetc.bsky.social and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social
EPISODE 1: METHODS AND STORIES
Listen free, and learn more, at
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/seven-county...
Follow the project @witches7hunt.bsky.social
A new 6-part mini-series from the Folklore Podcast, with @witchesetc.bsky.social and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social
EPISODE 1: METHODS AND STORIES
Listen free, and learn more, at
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/seven-county...
Follow the project @witches7hunt.bsky.social
Come to the amazing East Anglian Folklore Centre for an evening of Lincolnshire Folk Tales & MORE. Friday 13th (auspicious!), tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/lincolnshi...
www.eventbrite.com/e/lincolnshi...
June 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Come to the amazing East Anglian Folklore Centre for an evening of Lincolnshire Folk Tales & MORE. Friday 13th (auspicious!), tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/lincolnshi...
www.eventbrite.com/e/lincolnshi...