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A collection of Lancashire folk tales and supernatural sketches that gather ghost stories, fairy lore, witchcraft legends, and devilish episodes rooted in local landscape and custom. An introductory essay traces probable Celtic and Norse survivals and links particular beliefs to the county's fells, marshes, and coasts. The tales portray haunted houses, water-spirits, boggarts, spectral animals, and moralizing apparitions, mixing eerie atmosphere with regional customs, seasonal rituals, and village anecdotes. Many narratives explain misfortune or enforce social warnings, while others offer whimsical or tragic encounters with fairies and demons, presented as short pieces that alternate ethnographic observation with storytelling.

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Title: Goblin Tales of Lancashire

Author: James Bowker

Illustrator: Charles Gliddon

Release date: May 16, 2012 [eBook #39712]

Language: English

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Goblin Tales of Lancashire

 

GOBLIN TALES OF LANCASHIRE.

 

Page 149.

GOBLIN TALES
OF LANCASHIRE

BY

JAMES BOWKER, F.R.G.S.I.

AUTHOR OF 'PHŒBE CAREW, A NORTH COAST STORY,' 'NAT HOLT'S FORTUNE,' ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS
BY THE LATE CHARLES GLIDDON.

 

'Of Faery-land yet if he more enquire,
By certain signes here sett in sondrie place,
He may itt fynd.'

Spenser

'La veuve du même Plogojovits déclara que son mari depuis sa mort lui était venu demander des souliers.'

Calmet, Traité sur les Apparitions, 1751.

 

London
W. SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.
PATERNOSTER ROW

 

TO

THE MOST NOBLE

THE MARQUIS OF HARTINGTON, P.C., D.C.L.

THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS DEDICATED

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF

MUCH KINDNESS.

 

CONTENTS.

    PAGE
  INTRODUCTION, 13
I. THE SKRIKER, 27
II. THE UNBIDDEN GUEST, 37
III. THE FAIRY'S SPADE, 50
IV. THE KING OF THE FAIRIES, 52
V. MOTHER AND CHILD, 59
VI. THE SPECTRAL CAT, 63
VII. THE CAPTURED FAIRIES, 73
VIII. THE PILLION LADY, 77
IX. THE FAIRY FUNERAL, 83
X. THE CHIVALROUS DEVIL, 97
XI. THE ENCHANTED FISHERMAN, 104
XII. THE SANDS OF COCKER, 120
XIII. THE SILVER TOKEN, 129
XIV. THE HEADLESS WOMAN, 131
XV. THE RESCUE OF MOONBEAM, 140
XVI. THE WHITE DOBBIE, 152
XVII. THE LITTLE MAN'S GIFT, 159
XVIII. SATAN'S SUPPER, 164
XIX. THE EARTHENWARE GOOSE, 167
XX. THE PHANTOM OF THE FELL, 174
XXI. ALLHALLOW'S NIGHT, 189
XXII. THE CHRISTMAS-EVE VIGIL, 198
XXIII. THE CRIER OF CLAIFE, 212
XXIV. THE DEMON OF THE OAK, 221
XXV. THE BLACK COCK, 234
XXVI. THE INVISIBLE BURDEN. 238
  APPENDIX.--Comparative Notes 243