My sister pretended to be Jenny Greenteeth and scared the shit out of me when I was a kid

>>77845320
The hill giants of the norf...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29742774

>>77845202
>ireland
>literally just a cow
>salsbury
>literally just a bunny

Black Aliss is a good one.
Or the Witches of Canewdon. A town in Essex which will "always have a coven of six. Three of silk and three of cotton"
Could be a fun mystery as the party to to figure out which 3 high born and 3 low born people in town at the witches.
Throw in the story about a stone falling from the church tower when a witch is destined to die and it's a good un.

I'll have a think on some more.

>>77845202
I grew up by the coast in Scotland, and my grandfather used to tell me about Kelpies. The shapeshifting horses that live in water and try to abduct and drown people to eat them. I'm pretty sure it was just to keep me away from the edges of boats as a small child, but they could still make for a decent aquatic encounter.

>>77845202
The Queen is my favorite British creature

>>77845202
Just the ones I can remember from my area
>Ow'd Ned: Fairly standard ghostly highwayman
>Local river takes a life every year (checked the records, it does) and supposedly stops flowing/birds etc go silent just before it attacks (or however a river kills you, I don't know, never been down there when it supposedly happens).
>Lord whatsisface forbids his son from marrying a farmers daughter, that night a storm hits and the 8 ft tall stone cross his ancestors erected on top of the hill is swept down into the river (not the killer river, a different one), he sends a crew to drag it out of the river and put it back where it belongs which takes several days, that night another storm sends it back down to the riverbed. Lord takes the hint and leaves the cross in the river, but doesn't let his son marry his farmyard sweetheart. Son dies in a hunting accident a few days before his arranged marriage, the lord dies as the last of his family. Supposed to be the sort of punishment god hands out when he's in a romantic mood.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd
>The men would carry the Mari Lwyd to local houses, where they would request entry through the medium of song. The householders would be expected to deny them entry, again through song, and the two sides would continue their responses to one another in this manner. If the householders eventually relented, then the team would be permitted entry and given food and drink.

You must freestyle rap the skeletal horse or it gets your food

>>77845290
Tell me more bruv

>>77845482
Man that killer river one's awesome.. where you from?

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>>77845202
in wales these appear at your door at Christmas singing in rhymes asking for beer and food to say no you have to sing your no answer back in rhymes otherwise they win

>>77845519
>While your attempt was worth a punt
>Fuck off out you horse head cunt

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>>77845202
Ever hear of a Graveyard Grim?
So there was a myth that the first person buried in a graveyard would be forced to stand guard over the sleeping ghosts. They would stand until Judgement day making sure that Necromancers, Witches or evils spirits wouldn't disturb the sleepers. Nobody wanted this fate for their loved ones so a Graveyard Grim would be created. A dog would be killed and buried in the graveyard before anyone else. The ghost of the dog would help guide lost souls back to their graves and chase away Necromancers and evil spirits who were trying to disturb the dead.

>>77845510
>North England
It's supposed to be some kind of ancient, angry, river spirit or something; I moved away for work a few years ago though so I'm having trouble remembering vague stories I heard in my childhood, sorry.

>>77845447
That's neat, there's something in ancient greek myth of water horses, and we use their names for a section of human brains.
There's a Shoujo JRPG, in which the girl lead has a Scottish sounding name, and any body of water has deadly encounters with water monsters that shape shift into horses. It's not a super good game, though, it's really underbaked.

>>77845202

no banshee?

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>>77845488

they've even got GW models

>>77845510
She’d hunch over, turn off the lights, chase me around, and cackle about getting me until I cried

>>77845616
Fuck that's cool

>>77845655
...... fucking 'el. I never made that connection.

>>77845577
nice one anon but unfortunately i think it has to be in welsh

>>77845488
>>77845519
if you had been immoral at any point one of these with horns on the skull would turn up at your door and sing about what you did wrong

>>77845670
Bloody taffs.

>>77845713
>go out drinking
>go home, drunk and so tired you can't figure out how shoes are supposed to come off feet
>Someone knocks at your door
>Who the fuck would be knocking on my door at 1-fucking-am?
>I'll answer it just to give that cock a piece of my mind!
>Greeted by a skeletal horse singing at you in welsh

>>77845374
Lewes bonfire night used to be fucking nuts. I have no idea how they went 100 years without destroying the town.

>>77845663
10/10
Would date your sister

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>>77845743

>>77845623
We have a bunch of Goblin and Fae stories in the North

>>77845202
i live in a wierd part of the british isles that still has a lot of witches and witchcraft is still practiced

>>77845670
Speaking of welsh, story from a relative
>travelling through Wales
>stop at a pub
>patrons speaking english
>stop and turn when they enter
>they go back to talking but switch to welsh
Could make for a good tone-setting moment.

>>77845882
The Isles?

>>77845651
i saw a banshee when my grandmother died
see banshees arent evil they just tell you when a family member is about to die or has just died

>>77845906
Yeah, the British Isles is the term for Britain

>>77845906
there are 4,400 islands, 210 inhabited ones in the british isles
i live in the channel islands

>>77845910
It's sad that the Banshee will die out soon as they can only appear to Irish families that have owned the land for at least a few hundred years.
Thanks to us taking a lot of the land over there aren't many of those families left

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>>77845202
Get this book

>>77845954
I know you bellend.
The Isles is an area of tons of islands on the west coast of Scotland.

>>77845836
Is that what you call the Scousers then?

>>77845994
Only when they're being nice.

>>77845882
Camden?

>>77845993
didnt know that anon, as i said i live in the channel islands
i once said i wanted to find one to talk to as it might be interesting to some middle aged local people i know and the room went quiet and one said in a vey low serious voice i should drop it and stay as far away from them as possible

>>77845202
ireland has giant killer otters

>>77845994
i'd not want my live in Goblin to sound like a Scouser, i'd give it a penny and send it on it's way, unless it was a hot goblin.

Norf poster here

When I were a lad we went carol-singing and the Green Man (dude in a green outfit with leaves all over it) and the Horned God (dude wearing a fur outfit and antlers) went with us.

Christianity hadn't stamped out the old religion completely.
Our little village had a modern church, and one that fell into ruin a few hundred years ago, far up the hill.
And if you went all the way to the top of the hill, you say the big flat rock, with the faded stains on it, from where animals (mostly) had been sacrificed.
You also got lots of old superstitions like a horseshoe nailed above the door and a bowl of milk or dripping had to be left out on certain nights to keep the bad spirits away

>>77846164
>Christianity hadn't stamped out the old religion completely
a lot of it has just been adopted it's thought the british aversion and disgust of eating horse meat is a holdover from when we worshiped the celtic goddess of horses epona
the pantomime horse, hobby horse and >>77845519 mari lwyd are also though to be remnants of epona worship
look at what happened to that racing guy recently banned from uk horse racing because he sat posing on a dead horse

>>77846164
How far norf are ya, i'm a Yorkshire lad, we still have a bunch of alters in the hills but there isn't much in the way of traditions in my town.

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Nort East lad here, let me just check my big book of British folklore and I'll post some from my area. I'm not taking the piss, either, that's a book I really have

>>77846289
>How far norf are ya, i'm a Yorkshire lad

Ecky thump lad!

Yorkshire Dales/Pateley Bridge - up Ripon Way

>>77845349
That's clearly a forest spirit.

>>77846469
Some nice land around there, I'm from a village in the Bradford area, can get on the Leeds/Liverpool canal easy enough and have a wander through the woods, forest and hills to see some nice old altars and carvings.

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>>77845202
Lambton Worm

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>>77845202
jewelled winged snakes from wales

>>77846570
Ah cool, me mum grew up in Bradford, and I've still got a great aunt who lives out that way.
I worked in Leeds for a few years, nice but a bit too urban, aye?

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>>77846388
Right, in my area so far I've got:
Hell's Kettles; four deep pools that spirits are said to cry out from. One day a farmer took out some loads of hay on St. Barnabas' Day (June 11th) a day where pious folk should not work and was swallowed up in them, wagon, horses and all.

The Barghest; a mythical monstrous black dog with large teeth and claws but I guess that one got more popular than just locally. There's a tale of a man who ventures forth "to the horrid gill of the limestone hill" in order to summon and confront the Barghest in an act of ritual magic. The man's lifeless body is discovered soon after with inhuman marks upon his breast. There is also a story of a Barghest entering the city of York occasionally where, according to legend, it preys on lone travellers in the city's narrow Snickelways.

Cauld Lad of Hylton: At the beginning of the 17th century, in the employ of the then Baron of the estate, Sir Robert Hylton, was a stableboy called Roger Skelton. According to many tellings of the tale, Roger often complained of being 'cauld', and took to sleeping in the hay in his master's stables, which were warmer and cosier than the servants' quarters. However one day, young Roger overslept and didn't get his master's horse ready on time. The Baron flew into a terrible rage, slaying him on the spot. And more violently still, in some quarters it is alleged that the Baron's wrath was so great, he lopped Roger's head clean off his shoulders. But there are other Powers besides the law of man, and soon Hylton Castle was a troubled place. Pots were smashed, pans were thrown, the kitchen often trashed. Strange noises were heard, cries and wailing, and most sinister of all, a shape of a body, made from ashes from the fire would be found on the floor. Roger, the cauld lad, had returned to haunt the castle it seemed.

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>>77846388
Yes mate, the big book of 'King Arthur is around here somewhere'.

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>>77846745
The Story of John Grahame: the ghost of a young girl confronted a miller in 1631, she claimed to have been killed by his neighbour John Walker after he made her fall pregnant and that she would continue to haunt the miller until she was revenged. John Grahame alerted the authorities and within the day they found the girls body in Walker's house, there was also testimony from another local who claimed to see a ghostly girl standing on the shoulders of Walker the day Grahame reported the crime. Walker was hung and killed within the day.
The Witchposts: In houses in Co. Durham and Yorkshire there remain carved posts of some antiquity, marked with a distinct X, whose provenance is unknown. These are known locally as “witch posts.” Understanding these as examples of apotropaic folk-belief is recommended by contemporary accounts of the necessity of protection against evil by charms, images, and objects. Such beliefs were not only not marginal but actively encouraged by both traditional church practices and a Neoplatonic conception of the potency of words, incantations, and charms in physical and spiritual matters.

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>>77846978
3rd anon here, I think everyone and their mam has this book

>>77845202
cornish owlman
Woodwose british bigfoot
gruagach irish bigfoot
shug monkey, dog monkey

>>77846735
Not much of a fan of many of the cities, some good people but it can be real crowded.

>>77846273
I didn't know about that. I thought it was because of Papal decrees against the pagan practice of eating horse meat ritually, but it seems there are other theories like you say that hold it to be taboo because it used to be sacred. Cool!

There is a story about the settlement of Britian by the eponymous (and fictional) Trojan Brutus, who with his band of merry men including Corineus (who named Cornwall) arrived in the islands to find them inhabited by a race of giants, offspring of the breeding of demons with the twelve traitorous daughters of a Greek king who banished them from his lands (including the eldest Alba, who Albion is named for). They kill all the giants with their heroic strength and claim Britain for themselves. Not really folklore so much as bad medieval history I think but I enjoyed reading it.

>>77847061
>>77846978
>>77846388
What's the cover illustration? And is there anything on Long Lankin?

Not so much folklore but well, law, is Mary Ann Cotton who was an English serial killer, convicted of, and hanged for, the murder by poisoning of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton. It is likely that she murdered three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies, and many others. She may have murdered as many as 21 people, including 11 of her 13 children. She chiefly used arsenic poisoning, causing gastric pain and rapid decline of health.
Her home is in my home town and is frequently cited as being haunted and those who enter feel sickly and weak.

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>>77845202
>Looking for creatures and stories that would make for good encounters.
Try Bri'ish "people"

>>77847176
was that Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae as it sounds like it
according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's work I'm meant to be a direct descendent of King Arthur if he is right in saying the welsh king Cadwaladr was his descendent
and if no one in my family was the product of an affair as im meant to be from a direct father son line from Cadwaladr

>>77846388
>>77847061
>>77846978
Is this by Richard Barber by any chance? I have a similarly-titled "Myths and Legends of the British Isles"

>>77847233
Not sure about the cover, I'll have a quick deek see if I can find anything in the Northumberland section, I'll have to put the big light on.

>>77847377
Yeah bang on, couldn't remember off the top of my head.

>>77846273
>it's thought the british aversion and disgust of eating horse meat is a holdover from when we worshiped the celtic goddess of horses epona
Though she was also adopted in Gaul and even adopted into the Roman pantheon, yet neither the French nor the Italians have significant qualms about eating horse meat.

>>77847429
britain still have lot's of celtic people though maybe that's why
the welsh, the irish, the scottish, the cornish, the manx
all france have are the bretons

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>>77847389
It's by a lot of people.

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>>77845202
>Fat Lips
>Black Anis

Lmao

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For me, it's the Kelpie

>>77847662
they exist all over the british isles just with different names

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The Hand of Glory was supposedly the carefully prepared and “pickled” right hand of a felon, cut off while the body still hung from the gallows and used by burglars to send sleepers in a house into a coma from which they were unable to wake. In this case should one of the fingers refuse to light it is a sign that someone in the household remains awake.
The light cannot be extinguished by water or pinching but only by blood or blue milk.

>>77846273
>>77847429
>>77847478
The british not eating horse meat came from chrsitianity lol. eating horse meat was a saxon pagan thing and so was drinking horse blood. one of the first things christians did to stamp out paganism was to ban the consumption of horses

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>>77847830
I'm surprised nobody tried to claim horses are fish because they sometimes swim in water, so horses could still be eaten on Fridays.

>>77847263
>Mary Ann Cotton, she's dead and she's rotten
>Lying in bed with her eyes wide open.
>Sing, sing, oh what should I sing?
>Mary Ann Cotton, she's tied up with string.
>Where, where? Up in the air.
>Selling black puddings, a penny a pair.
>Mary Ann Cotton, she's dead and forgotten,
>Lying in bed with her bones all rotten.
>Sing, sing, what can I sing?
>Mary Ann Cotton, tied up with string
Me and my sister used to sing this as kids to scare each other when it was lights out.

>>77847830
>saxon pagan thing
when the saxons came to britain the britonic celts were already christian

>>77847892
Horses are too valuable to eat most of the time.

>>77847830
roman sources literaly say the britons did not eat horse meat, the saxons came from modern day denmark and germany

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The Gorbals Vampire
>1954 Glasgow
>Two school children go missing
>They are never found
>Rumours circulate about a tall pale man with metal teeth who kidnapped and devoured them
>September that year a large posse of scholchildren(mostly) conduct a hunt
>They raid the city's Southern Necropolis all night searching for this mysterious monster
>Fuckall happens because what sort of vampire worth his blood would be stupid enough to turn out when there's a lynch mob out to get him?
>There are a few subsequent hunts, nothing turns up
>Children lose interest and it fades into a general tension about spooky tall cunts
>To this day children still go missing, and sure maybe it's the Paki Rape Gangs, but when they don't turn up again maybe, just maybe it was the Vampire.

There's a bit of river in the North East called the Bolton Strid, so called because it looks narrow enough to step or jump over.
No one has ever gone in and come out alive.

>>77845202
Look up Gereld the Kings Hound. Welsh story. I built a side quest around it and is seemed to work well

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Wolves of God has some weird English monsters in it.

>>77848317
>>77848179
Celtoid amerimutts are retarded
The English (and scots although they like to deny it) are germanic. we aren't talking about celtoid culture here
English Anglo Saxon Germanic Pagans ate horses. Christians banned it. that's where the english taboo around horse meat comes from

>>77848865
>woman warriors
fuck off tranny

>>77848815
>Gereld
Gelert?

>>77845202
Many of the links I provided here have British stuff.

>>77833890
>>77833899

>>77845488
>>77845519
I love this one.

>>77845616
Ripped off for my setting. Party gonna find a ghost good doggo.

>>77845772
Made me kek, good one.

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This folklore is comfy yet timeless

Britain truly is Occidental Japan

>>77848865
>>77848916
To play the tranny's advocate, why wouldn't a woman traveling the countryside pack a weapon for self-defense? Doesn't mean she's a warrior per se, the same way not every modern day gun owner is a soldier/militiaman.

>>77848737
Don't you guys also have a weird cat man or something? Anything north of Hadrian's Wall is a mystery to me.

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>>77849103
Aye, the cat-man of Greenock.
He's a bit easier to debunk though when you look at where he was spotted and the sort of things around there.

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>>77848916
While I'm tempted to just call you a fag and tell you to go back, the game does actually address that explicitly.
("Brother Cornix" is part of the framing device for the game, it's written as if it was an unearthed manuscript of a rulebook rather than just... a rulebook)
tl;dr RAW warrior women would pretty much be nonexistent in-setting, but the PCs are exceptional anyway.
and if you're STILL a fag about it one of the classes is literally forbidden to harm humans (being a Saint. God doesn't like violence), so just play that instead.

Spring Heeled Motherfucking Jack
He sexually assaults women, breathes flame, and does sick ass parkour across the rooftops of Victorian London.

>>77847176
Plenty of folklore comes from badly remembered history m8. Think of St. Patrick vs the snakes. Or the Trojan War.

>>77849226
Was he the same bloke who tried to spank 100 women by Christmas?

>>77849179
Tell us more? Google avails me naught.

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>a boar so powerful that when Arthur failed in an ambush to claim the enchanted barber's tools tangled in his mane he gathered a raiding party of boars that fucking swam from Ireland to Wales and absolutely fucking wrecked everything, ending in him and Arthur having an epic fight to the death atop a cliff, ending in them both wrestling mid air as they fall into the ocean
>just straight up swims back to ireland after

based Twrch Trwyth

there's also the Pwca, a goblin that if you displease will lead you astray with a fake lamp light on a foggy night to your death (usually by getting you to walk off a clidd

>>77849612
Okay, let me preface this with saying Greenock is a bit of a shite hole. Post-industrial sort of place, lots of poverty, drug abuse, all that shite. Not a great place.
So, the story of him seems to go back ~40 years. The basic gist is that, in the town of Greenock, there is a strange man, skin stained black as pitch, with a thick shaggy beard who crawls around on his belly everywhere like Solid Snake. He lives in the brush and scrub in the wastelands with the stray cats. By all accounts he is a mute, either unable or unwilling to talk, at least in English(or what passes for it in Greenock) though he does clearly understand it. His name comes from the strange habit he has that he has been seen often catching, and eating, rats (and allegedly also pigeons and squirrels).
Lots of eye witness accounts, and even video exists of him and by all accounts he's quite agreeable, not aggressive, not skittish, really not what you'd expect from your usual jakey sort. Though some older accounts, presumably because he would have been younger, are that he had a habit of haunting one particular lane and would jump out at passers-by. Age mellows people and all that.

>>77850088
So the cryptid is just some crazy guy?

>>77845882
Glastonbury?

>>77850166
Yeah, basically, though he's been a multi-generational sighting now, and some of the origin stories date him back to WW2.
Best one, in my opinion is that he is the ghost of a sailor from the Polish navy who died during an air raid, still wandering the living world in his broken scorched corpse.
Fact of the matter though is he's just a mechanic who's taking the piss.

>>77850270
>Fact of the matter though is he's PROBABLY just a mechanic who's taking the piss.
fix'd, just in case, don't want that creepy cunt crawling around my bit just in case.

>>77850021
Lel. Reminds me of the Iroko man from my country. He lures you close with his torch at night and then when you look at his face you go mad then die.

Fun thread.

>>77849612
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l3a_n6JkJ8
Here you go.

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>be britbong
>be south-easterner (posh nob from bucks to be precise)
>not know any real local folklore
Can one of the anons with the big books help me out? Only thing I know is that there's a nearby river that sporadically dries up, sometimes for years at a time; when it flows, there's supposed to be peace, and it drying is a portent of war or unrest (apparently it dried up 6 months before WW2 broke out).

Pic related is near where I live. The behemoth that is Greater London is depressing, but there's still a bunch of green pockets left. At least, what is left of them after the continuous developments on the green belt.

>>77850823
Maybe check out Project Guttenberg for some texts that might be relevant to your interests.
I'd also say that your local (large) library aught to have a good local mythology, legends and folklore documentation section.

...when lockdown is lifted again.

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>>77850823
I'll see if I can find anything interesting, consider yourself lucky, Chiltern is a far cry from Chilton where I grew up.

>>77850823
Find the oldest person and demand they teach you of the elder days

>>77850021
Oh I know the Pwca, if I remember right, it's one of the many folklore representations of the Will O' Wisp

>>77850939
>>77850823
I like the towns have the same name just spelt according to Norf and Souf pronunciations

>>77850823
South East folklore mostly revolved around estate agents who come into your house at night and tell them you've been gazumped unless you give them sexual favours.

I’ve heard knocking on wood and crossing fingers are Anglo customs, is this accurate?

Check out the Lamptom worm.

>>77850823
Calverton has Gib Lane, named for the gibbet that once stood there, it's said to be haunted by the ghost of Lady Grace Bennett. Grace Bennett was widowed when her husband Simon died in 1682, and thereafter she lived alone as Lady of the Manor in Calverton. She was widely disliked for her ‘mean and covetous’ ways, and being ‘a terror to the village’ she would have anyone found gathering firewood on her land severely beaten. Rumour spread locally that Lady Bennett kept a large fortune in the manor house, and this tempted a local butcher from Stony Stratford by the name of Adam Barnes to break in and relieve her of such worldly burdens. However, she suddenly stumbled across him in the servants’ quarters, and there she was brutally murdered for her interference. Barnes escaped but was eventually caught and brought to justice, convicted and sentenced to hang. His body was left to swing in irons and rot. Both the murderer and his uncharitable victim are still said to walk their ghostly ways, and for many years in the servants’ hall could be seen a red stained stone that defied all attempts to clean it- though when the stone was eventually taken up a natural red vein was found to run right through it.
Colnbrook has the Ostrich Inn. A past landlord and landlady named Jarman are supposed to have murdered up to 60 guests on the premises, in either the 16th or 18th century by dropping rich travellers who passed the tavern through a trapdoor under their beds into cauldrons of boiling ale. The final victim, Thomas Cole's horse was found wandering the town and authorities got them to confess to the murders, they were then executed. The name of the town is said to come from their final victim. Cole-in-the-brook or Colnbrook.

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I remember once being scared with the story of Nanny Rutt, it didn't help that I lived near a woodland at the time so I never wanted to go near it.

>>77851046
I've heard both, don't know if they're Anglo origin but I've done both out of habit. Wikipedia claims knock on wood is either Germanic or Celtic but it's Wikipedia so take what it says with a pinch of salt.

>>77850939
>>77850975
Technically there isn't an actual place just called 'Chiltern', it's the general area (the Chiltern Hills). That said, there certainly are quite a few places with the same name across the country.

>>77851046
Can confirm. You typically touch/knock on some wooden object to ward against evil or misfortune, or just say 'touch wood' if there's none nearby. e.g. "My mum's due to leave the hospital next week, touch wood."

Crossing fingers I thought was more widespread, but generally you cross your fingers to 'exempt' yourself from something binding like an oath, promise, or contract. For example, you might hold your fingers crossed behind your back while shaking someone's hand after negotiating peace in some conflict, possibly to morally excuse yourself from the agreement you're about to break, or possibly as a sign to others that you don't intend to honour it.

>>77851204
>Cole-in-the-brook or Colnbrook
Huh, and here I was assuming that it was called that because it's next to the River Colne.

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>>77850823
Fingest allegedly has the ghost of a 14th century Bishop which still wanders the nearby woods. Supposed to be Henry Burghersh, the Bishop of Lincoln from 1320 till 1340, his ghost is forever doomed to wander for causing distress to the needy.
I've got more but really, I need to ask, you've never heard of The Hellfire Club?
Hellfire Club was a name for several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. The name is most commonly used to refer to Sir Francis Dashwood's Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe. Such clubs were rumoured to be the meeting places of "persons of quality" who wished to take part in socially perceived immoral acts, and the members were often involved in politics. Neither the activities nor membership of the club are easy to ascertain. The clubs were rumoured to have distant ties to an elite society known only as The Order of the Second Circle.
The club motto was Fais ce que tu voudras (Do what thou wilt), a philosophy of life associated with François Rabelais' fictional abbey at Thélème and later used by Aleister Crowley.
Eventually, the meetings were moved out of the abbey into a series of tunnels and caves in West Wycombe Hill. They were decorated again with mythological themes, phallic symbols and other items of a sexual nature.

Records indicate that the members performed "obscene parodies of religious rites" according to one source. According to Horace Walpole, the members' "practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed; and the nymphs and the hogsheads that were laid in against the festivals of this new church, sufficiently informed the neighborhood of the complexion of those hermits." Dashwood's garden at West Wycombe contained numerous statues and shrines to different gods; Daphne and Flora, Priapus and the previously mentioned Venus and Dionysus.

Is there an equivalent of mothman/high concentration of UFO sightings and weird lore from ex-europe?

>asking this for a possible cthulhu game

>>77851443
Well, there is Springheel Jack who comes straight to mind.

>>77851375
>Hellfire Club
You know, I actually have (even been to the caves), I just never really considered it 'folklore' on the same tier as Mari Lwyd or phantom cats/dogs. Much more weird history, in the sense that it didn't cause any local customs or superstitions (as far as I know), and it doesn't sit in the forefront of the 'culture' of High Wycombe (insofar that it even has one, the urban centre there is a shithole). That said, it's definitely good inspiration for cults/cabals in RPGs.

Also, in review,
>evil landlord gets murdered and becomes a ghost
>town gets its name from a guy killed by an evil landlord
>evil clergy's ghost
>screwed-up landlords/clergy doing screwed-up things
Really painting a stunning picture!

Thanks for all the tales.

>>77851443
There's a decent list published by the Ministry of Defence, it's a bit dated but there's some interesting stuff in there
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/16850/ufo_report_2009.pdf
A quick google shows Lincolnshire is the place to be
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/ufo-sightings-lincolnshire-aliens-lights-4450402

>>77851532

Nah, he's cool but I need something very ufo-related.

>yes, I'm aware they tought him/it to be an alien, but you get my point

>>77851540
Shockingly, the South East has always been a place for rich bastards to do rich bastard things.

>>77851443
>>77851556
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp#Britain

>>77851556
>I need something very ufo-related.
What sort of things are you thinking, anon?

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>>77851556
In the North East we have these things called Bogles. They're meant to be from all over the country but we call them Bogles here. Pronounced: Boggles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogle
It's a broad term for spirits or unusual creatures but a more refined version would be a Boggart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggart
A boggart is a creature in English folklore, either a household spirit or a malevolent genius loci (that is, a geographically-defined spirit) inhabiting fields, marshes, or other topographical features. Other names of this group include bug, bugbear, bogey, bogun, bogeyman, bogle, etc., presumably all derived from (or related to) Old English pūcel, and related to the Irish púca and the pwca or bwga of Welsh mythology.
The household form causes mischief and things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs to go lame. The boggarts inhabiting marshes or holes in the ground are often attributed more serious evildoing, such as the abduction of children.

>>77851556
What about Fetches? They're more irish but they're doppelgangers that are omens of deaths.

Or Changelings, children stolen and replaced by the Fair Folk to be raised by a human family

>>77851556
Redcaps? Redcap is depicted as "a short, thickset old man with long prominent teeth, skinny fingers armed with talons like eagles, large eyes of a fiery red colour, grisly hair streaming down his shoulders, iron boots, a pikestaff in his left hand, and a red cap on his head". When travellers take refuge in his lair, he flings huge stones at them and if he kills them, he soaks his cap in their blood, giving it a crimson hue. He is unaffected by human strength, but can be driven away by words of Scripture or by the brandishing of a crucifix, which cause him to utter a dismal yell and vanish in flames, leaving behind a large tooth
Depends if you're looking for something that is a bad omen then you'd want something like a Barghest or if you want something that could described as an alien looking creature.

There's a few different black dogs, I like Black Shuck the most:
He takes the form of a huge black dog, and prowls along dark lanes and lonesome field footpaths, where, although his howling makes the hearer's blood run cold, his footfalls make no sound. You may know him at once, should you see him, by his fiery eye; he has but one, and that, like the Cyclops', is in the middle of his head. But such an encounter might bring you the worst of luck: it is even said that to meet him is to be warned that your death will occur before the end of the year. So you will do well to shut your eyes if you hear him howling; shut them even if you are uncertain whether it is the dog fiend or the voice of the wind you hear. Should you never set eyes on our Norfolk Snarleyow you may perhaps doubt his existence, and, like other learned folks, tell us that his story is nothing but the old Scandinavian myth of the black hound of Odin, brought to us by the Vikings who long ago settled down on the Norfolk coast.
Then the Gytrash:
The Gytrash, a legendary black dog known in Northern England, was said to haunt lonely roads awaiting travelers. Appearing in the shape of horses, mules, cranes or dogs, the Gytrash haunt solitary ways and lead people astray but they can also be benevolent, guiding lost travelers to the right road. They are usually feared.
In some parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, the Gytrash was known as the Shagfoal and took the form of a spectral mule or donkey with eyes that glowed like burning coals. In this form, the beast was believed to be purely malevolent.

>>77851556
There's the Dunipace Pact in Falkirk, where they said the Roman invaders and Pictish defenders had to stop one battle to fight side-by-side against some ghastly thing from the mists which they chased into a hillside cave and sealed away before shaking hands and calling the battle off for another day. Bonus fact - Falkirk Triangle is a famous UFO hotspot in Scotland.
The Tuatha de Danann of Ireland could also be interpreted as an outsider or alien invader/castaway group.

>>77851592

Lights in the sky. Strange vehicles. Bizzarre "people" in it.

Not necessarily all of them, and yes, I do know that fairies have some of these traits.

>>77851800

Interesting.

Mum had the opportunity to be on Jim’ll Fix It but her friend gave her the chickenpox so she couldn’t go. To this day she jokes she suddenly has chickenpox when something weird or creepy is about.

>>77851833
Bizarre people? How about The Wizard of The Edge?
Legend has it that a farmer from Mobberley was taking a milk white mare to sell at the market in Macclesfield. Walking along the Edge, he reached a spot known locally as "Thieves Hole" where an old man clad in a grey and flowing garment stopped him. The old man offered the farmer a sum of money for his horse but the farmer refused, saying he could get a better price at the market. The old man told the farmer that he would be at this spot again that evening when the farmer returned, not having found a purchaser for the horse. So the farmer went to market; but having failed to sell the horse, returned in the evening and made his journey back along the Edge. At the same point, the old man appeared again, repeating his offer, which this time was accepted. The old man told the farmer to follow him with the horse. As they approached an area just past Stormy Point, the old man held out a wand and uttered a spell, opening the rock revealing a pair of huge iron gates, which the wizard – as he was – opened. Assuring no harm the wizard told the farmer to enter. The farmer did so, and was led through the gates into a large cavern. In the cavern, the farmer saw countless men and white horses, all asleep. In a recess there was a chest, from which the wizard took the payment for the horse, which he gave to the farmer. The astonished farmer asked what all this meant; the wizard explained that all these sleeping warriors were ready to awake and fight should England fall into danger. He then ordered the farmer to leave and return home.

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/alderley-edge-and-cheshire-countryside/features/the-legend-of-alderley-edge

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>>77847233
The Dorset Ooser is a wooden head that featured in the 19th-century folk culture of Melbury Osmond, a village in the southwestern English county of Dorset. The head was hollow, thus perhaps serving as a mask, and included a humanoid face with horns, a beard, and a hinged jaw which allowed the mouth to open and close.

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>>77851800
Speaking of Falkirk - Rosslyn Chapel
There's some alien/demon/fayfolk portal shit about that place that could rival Houska Castle for spooky otherworldly shit.
Also - Houska Castle, apparently there's a portal to Hell underneath it's chapel. Sound familiar?

>>77851910
fucking wizards, I swear

>>77851910
>that all these sleeping warriors were ready to awake and fight should England fall into danger.
This bit sounds so familiar to me, but I think the story I heard was from Poland.

>>77851910
That sounds a lot like the King asleep the Mountain story that's all over the place. Like how King Arthur will return from his sleep in time of England's greatest need

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>>77851556
What about something that communicates with aliens?
The Cerne Abbas Giant is a hill figure near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. 55 metres (180 ft) high, it depicts a standing nude male figure with a prominent erection and wielding a large club in its right hand.
Interestingly the nearby hill fort of Maiden Castle (located just outside Dorchester) seems to be a magnet for UFO sightings. For years there have been reports of strange crafts being spotted in the sky and the appearance of crop circles in the area. Some Forteans argue that these stories may be related to an old folk tale about Maiden Castle, where a piper stumbled into the castle – enticed by lively music – and was tricked by a band of faeries into piping for them for over a hundred years. This sort of encounter has its parallels with modern-day ‘abduction’ stories regarding UFOs, but this connection may be a bit of a stretch.
It's reportedly also a hotspot for crop circles.

>>77852131
Well I assume the wizard is Merlin, regardless, the idea of a collection of white horses and men kept in suspended animation behind a hidden metal door in 1773 that opens when it hears voice commands can be spun into a UFO connection pretty easily.

The Vampire Doggett
It's too long to post so I'll just link an article about it here:
http://www.twilightshadowsparanormal.co.uk/vampiredoggett.html
The history part is the most interesting, the report is written by people who want to encounter the supernatural so I didn't bother reading it because it will be biased

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>>77852158
Don't forget the Uffington white horse (Oxfordshire)!

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I love when /x/ comes to visit, feels like the good old days of the /b/oxes.

>>77852345
This thread reminds me of old /x/, I think it's why I've been so enthusiastic with my posting.

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>>77845488
Something similar in the Fenlands, the Straw Bear. I know I've seen a good bit on it somewhere, but as I can't find it this'll have to do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-46934909

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>>77852396
Also Morris dancing. Cant have a folkloric festival without a lot of sticks and jingling.

>>77852373

A sad reminder of what /x/ has become, really

>>77852131
motherfucker didn't bother with Covid tough

>>77852520
Well, it is killing more asians than natives.

>>77852500
Yeah, I don't go there any more. It's all just shit I'm not interested in anymore. It's less paranormal/folklore/conspiracies with proven past conspiracies and grand interlinking webs of world wild phenomena and now it's just political sperging all day every day, or it was last time I went for a quick visit after a few years break.

>>77852537
Not really that shocking when it was first becoming a massive problem in the UK after Chinese New Year when tons of them went home to the massively infected China and then returned to the UK but the government were too busy wringing their hands about appearing racist to close the borders. I'm not even racist and even I know that as an island nation it's the first thing we should have done, we have the perfect defence against diseases, the fucking ocean.

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>>77852555
Yeah, seems I'm missing out on some critical conversations in /x/ these days.

>>77852611
Madagascar Protocol.
Fuckers in public health offices should be obliged to play Pandemic on newgrounds.
Close the ports.
Close fucking every entrance.
Anybody wants in - 14 days quarantine out of their own pocket.
Break quarantine procedure? 5 figure penalty.
There is no overkill when dealing with disease.

>>77852611
Or, as one of my friends likes to aptly call it, the "Great Fuck-Off Moat".

>>77852665
>>77852675
Aye, maybe I shouldn't lay blame squarely on the Chinese, my grandparents came back from visiting my uncle in Thailand for Christmas and New Year and there was a bunch of sick people on the flight, they got a "really bad flu" when they got back from Thailand so I went round to help them out, I'd seen covid videos on /gif/ and stuff but honestly never put two and two together, so then I got it and ended up sitting my house off work sick for a week. Seems I didn't spread it since it didn't pass around the office when I went back and live alone but it's pretty weird to think my grandparents could have been the first confirmed cases if we'd seen it coming sooner.

What about that Cthulhoid monster that was found in a London flat?

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>>77852755
Well, glad you recovered either way, and at least you had good intentions helping your relatives. Can't say much for people going about business as usual while the rest of us are holed up.

>>77852820
I should say this was Christmas 2019 not this last one. So just before it became a global issue, at the time it was just spreading across Asia.

>>77852817
Was that the meat-thing?
Like, someone had some giant corpse-sludge from chopped up bits of animal that had gathered in a heap and allowed to rot and flower with fungus until it took up most of the flat's room? I remember hearing about that while down south.

>>77852817
These things?
https://designyoutrust.com/2016/05/bodies-of-strange-creatures-were-found-in-the-basement-of-an-old-house-in-london/

>>77852918
>>77852918
Nah it was definitely a Cthulhoid entity in someone's flat, hang on a sec..here we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbJw3r9UTwk

>>77853070
Many people if given a time machine would claim to use it to go back and kill Hitler.
If you gave it to me, I would use it to go back and teach people to write legibly so it wouldn't take about quarter of an hour to decipher a single line of their goddamn chicken-scratches of cursive.

Interesting thread all over. Needs to be archived, methinks.

>>77845202
There is actually a pretty shitty book that covers most of British Folklore, but it will do the trick. Made by a literature teacher in the 50s. Lord of The Rings

>>77853227
Learning to write in cursive at primary school was one of the biggest wastes of time I've ever endured. I still do it now though, it's just natural, they drove that shit home over and over, now I can only write comfortably in cursive, writing in roman just feels less important because it's something I only did as a kid pre-secondary school. Weird how your childhood fucks you up in little ways.

>>77853271
Lord of the Rings doesn't even scratch the surface. There's a reason it's babbies first folklore exposure.

>>77853271

It's an urban legend. Tolkien DID want to make "a mythical story for England" at some point but he was sane enough to get that he couldn't.

>>77853290
I'm in the same boat. Or was, rather, I learned after a while that it's important to slow down, take time with each stroke of the pen, make each letter, though connected to the preceeding and the next, a distinct entity.
Basically I stopped using a ballpoint to write.

>>77853358
I use fibre felt if I get the chance, long and deliberate motions because if I just do it mindlessly I end up writing in a deeper and deeper italic slant until it looks like I was dragged away from the paper by force mid-sentence, I could never write in the lines, either. Really have to focus to write properly, I suppose it's because outside of my TTRPG notes I don't do much hand writing any more, I might have to pick it up for some practice this weekend.

>>77853358
What do you use? When I was in school we were basically forced to use a fountain pen and it was only later that I found ballpoints. Now I use them exclusively (mostly Uniball Eyes). My handwriting is far from neat and consistent like a typeface but it is certainly legible, which is more than I can say for some of my peers.

>>77852555
>now it's just political sperging all day every day
Aren't they all?

>>77853290
My cursive was always horrible. My parents even forced me to use a caligraphy notebook to get it better and I never got through. Eventually I dropped the cursive and went in Romans, shit is much better.

>>77849045
Why do you people have to get political in every fucking thread. Fuck off back to your containment board

>>77853460
I've got three main pens;
Home - Diplomat Magnum
Work - Jinhao 750
Travel - Zebra Fuente
I've got a small pile of others I dabbled with but these are the three that serve me day-to-day. Medium nib mostly, gives a nice balance between making sure my lines are distinct and not putting an absolute deluge of ink onto the paper.

>>77853483
True enough, I just want to play games. I've no interest in peoples political affiliations.

>>77853255
Check suptg

>>77853558
I'd like to use a fountain pen at all times but I reckon I'd be the poor cunt who gets done for possession of a bladed weapon when I'm travelling to or from work. No one would believe some wankstain from Bishop Auckland would be regularly using a pen, never mind a fountain pen.

>>77853615
Equally though, my impression was that police didn't generally care (or even check) outside the big cities like London, Birmingham, Manchester, etc?

>>77853615
If you can buy it in a highstreet stationary store or it looks retro enough I don't think even the most brazen of cunt-hole police would hold it against you.
To whit - Lamy Safari/AlStar are both very safe choices as a modern and easily acquirable fountain pen without really stretching the wallet.

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>>77853653
I've been stop searched a few times, can't blame them, I finish work at 2am and walk home through the city centre. Used to happen more but I think I've met every person from the local constabulary and they just say hello to me now. Even met Jacko from Police Interceptors once when he pulled me walking over the viaduct in the background of the pic on my way home.
Nice bloke, I got to see him kick the shit out of someone I went to primary school with, he had it coming, though.
>>77853737
I'll see if I can pick one up, sick of getting shit for my chicken scratch sign offs on QA sheets but they only give us bic pens.
If the threads still up tomorrow when I get up I'll post some stuff from my home town, we've got this little network or caves from when were a mining town and there's all sorts of weird occult shit linked to it, would fit in this thread pretty well.

>>77853867
>4 in the morning britbong hours
>Finish work at 2 A.M.
Story checks out.

>>77853930
Not that unusual, I once had a job that did 6PM to 6AM

did anyone say boggarts and brownies and stuff... I wonder if those are actually real though... so maybe they would be offended...

>>77853986
>>77851650
Yeah, I mentioned them up earlier in the thread. Just a few select bits of info, if people care enough they can go from there.

>>77853986
Brownies ain't just primary school girl guides, mate.
But, they're more a household type rather than the type one might expect to bump into in the wild. Bit like a suburban fox, if you follow, something that knows humans will take care of it, but not quite domestic, but also knowing that it's not in it's own best interest to view humans in any particularly hostile aspect.

>>77853986
>I wonder if those are actually real though.
As in real myths?
Yeah, they are.
As in real, actual, physical creatures?
No. There is nothing beyond the mundane.

>>77853271
It started out that way, but Middle Earth became something else entirely

Besides, English mythology is literally just bootleg Norse mythology

>>77854394
People used to think whales were a myth, too. Who knows, maybe one day we'll discover something that explains a few of these old bits of folklore.

>>77854476
You’re not totally wrong. Most stories about magic dwarfs in Africa are folk memories of Pygmies. In Britain the “fairy forts” are old neolithic settlements.

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>>77848880
im irish, who lives in the uk i have an irish passport
i was talking about gaelic celts and brittonic celts
the modern scottish are hard to pin down, no one is actually sure if the picts were celts, most say yes but some say they weren't and some even say they weren't even indo-european and that one is used by scottish nationalists to justify their complete independence from the rest of britain and ireland
after the romans left, the scotti a tribe from ireland conquered scotland (hence the name) and according to medieval records genocided the picts, this would make the modern scottish celtic and this is why they speak scottish gaelic which is based on irish gaelic
but the scotts were then invaded by the vikings and the modern scottish love this
so you have a people who claim to be celtic viking non indo europeans

>>77848916
women warriors wouldn't be found at that period in time
celts did very rarely use armed women around the time romans invaded, but they were used to boost numbers and to help defend from sieges

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Black Annis is my neck of the woods.

>Lives in a cave in the Dane Hills region
>Eats human flesh, is particularly fond of children
>Catches children and flays them alive using her sharp claws
>Hangs the skins from the boughs of trees to dry
>Dry skin is then tanned into leather and sewed to make her clothes
>Would sometimes use her long arms to reach into houses and snatch people from their beds
>Apparently this is why a lot of local buildings have small windows
>Cave silted up some time in the 18th century
>Dane Hills is now a suburb and the cave is now buried under someone's back garden

Scottish folklore features a lot of shapeshifting water creatures/spirits
Kelpies have already been mentioned a couple of times. There are other variants like Tangies, Nuggles, Nuckelavees - which tie in with the Orcadian "Sea Mither" mythos - and each-uisge.
Water bulls share some characteristics (ability to shapeshift, able to live on land/in water). They reproduce with normal cattle, and the only way to tell a young one is by its deformed ears - water bulls have no ears, so their offspring have half-ears from their mother; it must be killed in order to save the rest of the herd (by any method other than drowning). However they can be useful: there are accounts of water bulls being kept alive on farms, and then being released when kelpies attempt to lure away farmers.
Selkies sort of turn the tables, being seal-women. They can shapeshift into human form, but must take care to hide their seal skin when doing so. In numerous tales, men steal this skin, and this compels the selkie to become their wife. She will have children with the man, but will always long to return to the sea, where she might have a different husband and children. She must find her skin to do so, and once she does she will return to the water. Sometimes her children will know the location of the skin, and she must attempt to find out from them. Some variants have her returning to her land-children once per year, whereas others have her leave them forever.

There are also a bunch of things to do with the Fairy Queen of Elfland: Thomas the Rhymer (a bard-prophet), Tam Lin (a man captured and forced to serve as one of the Queen's personal guard), walking widdershins/anticlockwise around a church summoning her to kidnap you. See the Child Ballads as a source of a lot of fairy/human interaction.

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>>77857877
Another one, this seems to be from the Midlands area in general, if any other anons can confirm:

>Midnight Horses
>Sometimes called the 7 o'clock/8 o'clock Horses etc depending on what time they arrived
>Would appear when the clock struck and carry away children not asleep in bed, never to be seen again
>Imagined them as a demonic herd of black steeds galloping through the night like a Wild Hunt
>Scared the shit out of me as a child

The legend probably originated from the sewage cleaners who would clear out the city's gutters of filth at night, loading it onto horse drawn carts. It wasn't uncommon for them kidnap lone children found wandering the streets at night. When they transported the waste out to the countryside they'd sell the children as slave labour to the farms. Telling kids that demon horses would carry them off is a good way of keeping them inside and safe.

>>77857224
Nice. Is it bad luck to look at it or something?

>>77845202
Just grab a few books on irish/Celtic mythology and you should be set

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>>77845397
Well that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most fowl, cruel and bad tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!

>>77851650
Brings me back to reading spooks as a teen
The later trilogy was absolute shite and after finishing that last one I threw the book across the room in rage
First and last time I'd ever had a violent reaction to the ending of a book kek

>>77845202
Oi, best thread in tg right now.
I ever been a fan of the Pooka.

>>77858607
That's the deadliest moving body of water in the world luv, it looks like a creek, but that shit is fucking FAST, and it's deeper than your moms vagoo, if you enter it, the chances of you surviving are VERY slim, it's kill count is fucking massive
it's the stuff of nightmare

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>>77845397
I actually really like the Salisbury Hare. Just a bunny who dances under the full moon and whoever sees it will forever after have good luck. It's so ridiculously sweet and innocent, but it seems completely sincere and wholesome.

Myths like this don't leave a whole lot of room to play around with them, but they have their own charm.

>>77858723
Oh please, it's not that bad, look, I can stand in it knee deep and nothi

>>77845616
This is fucking sick and I'm definitely using it for my colonial folklore setting.

>>77859120
Well, in some parts of yurop it used to be a real person was used to consacrate a person as sacrifice. Then it was a cow or other animals.
In my country tough, we settled for some eggs to curry favor with the household deity.

>>77845397
>literally just a cow
*The milkiest cow

>>77857116
The Caledonians were described as Germanic by Tacitus
The entirety of lowland scotland was completely Anglo Saxon and ruled by them for hundreds of years
The only part of scotland that really has a claim of being celtic are the western isles but the vikings invaded those as well so really they're celto germanic
Scotland is a germanic nation

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i live near a dark pond nearbye the grindylow area always freaks me out sitting near it

>>77859326
Tacticus was wrong about many things. He claimed the Balts were Celtic FFS.

In my town our ancestors used to sacrifice an unfortunate soul in order to prevent buildings and bridges from collapsing. More than a few have reported spoopy phenomenon related to it.

>>77859451
Caledonians were obviously germanic lad

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>>77845202
http://www.loremenpodcast.com/
you may get some inspiration from them

>>77845476
Kate Beckinsale is my favorite British creature.

>>77859522
Stop being ridiculous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonians

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>>77847176
>>77847377
That book is an amazing resource for fantasy names

There’s a lot of folk tales in the isles of ordinary people conning supernatural beings with simple tricks either for gain or self preservation.

One of my favourites is the story about the devil wanting to destroy the village of Avebury in Wiltshire.
The story goes that for whatever reason, he decided to bury the village under a mountain of earth. The villagers heard about this plan in advance and came up with a plan. They collected everyone’s old and worn out shoes and boots into a sack. Then dressed up an old man in the oldest most threadbare clothes they could find and sent him alone with the sack to plea with the devil to leave them alone. The man found the devil carrying a huge mound or earth in a hod and introduced himself as coming from Avebury to plead he leave them alone. The devil being curious asked what was in the sack so the old man emptied out all the shoes and said that he left Avebury as a young man and wore them all out walking to meet the devil. The devil being tricked into thinking the village was several years walking distance gave up on his plan and dropped the hod of earth, created Silbury hill, and returned to hell.

The hill is actually an ancient hill fort so no real devils were involved on it’s creation.

>>77847176
>including the eldest Alba
Protip; Alba is Scottish for Scotland.

>>77849564
I know I'm a bit late in replying, but I think that was John "Mad Jack" Mytton; a certified aristocratic nutter from my home town of Oswestry, the guy was completely off his rocker! Used to ride his horse into the town hall when he was mayor and allegedly tried to wrestle a bear once, his Wikipedia entry is an entertaining read but doesn't seem to cover all of his shenanigans

>>77859725
Brutus greeshield? Neat.
Also I will use some of those names for Rohirim like tribes I have for my setting.

>>77859635
Tacitus describes them as germanic you celtcuck

>>77862321
Tacticus thought bird guts can predict the future

Every linguist and historian you ask will tell you the Caledonians were Insular Celts

>>77852611
>the government were too busy wringing their hands about appearing racist to close the borders
>implying they weren't doing their best to make sure insurance companies didn't have to give people what they were owed, and that the main reason Britain is leading in Covid deaths is because a tiny majority fucked up four years in a row
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/01/uk-global-leader-pandemics-coronavirus-covid-19-crisis-britain

>>77862388
>>77862321
Wrong, they were a split of basques.

>>77845202
Just google Arabian Nights

Have Gog and Magog been mentioned yet?

>>77862554
Most of the Arabian Nights stories are French and Persian

>>77862569
No but please go on, there were statues of them outside the theatre in Chichester where my nan lived and they used to frighten the piss out of me when we went to the yearly panto

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>>77845202
Some say he once had a sordid love affair with Michael Schumacher's lawnmower. And some say that his animal companion is a Jaaaaag. All we know is that he's called The Stig.

>>77862222
I've used a couple of these for goblins. Also, quads confirm that these names are great.

>>77862673
>Most of the Arabian Nights stories are French and Persian
Congrat. you've just described UK culture

>>77862949
Is there anything more embarrassing than a self-hating Anglo?

>>77862748
There's some dispute whether the Gogs are one giant or two. If it's one, he's Gogmagog. If it's two, it's Gog and Magog. There's a lot of stories and different takes on them. In the Matter of Britain, Gogmagog was slain by invading Trojans. In other stories he also fought King Arthur's Knights.

There's two hills in Cambridgeshire called The Gogs, which are supposed to be the burial mounds for the giants. Local children were forbidden from playing on the hills and digging into the chalk, in case they woke up the giant(s). In fact, the earliest record of the name, is a declaration that any children found on the hill will be fined. My mum used to threaten to take me up there and leave me for the giant, if I was being a little shit.

>>77862554
>Just google Arabian Nights
Imagine coming into a thread without reading through just to drop a 'witty' and 'acerbic' comment like this. Well done, now everyone can see what an arsehole you are.

>>77862949
I don’t get it

>>77860003
alba/albion used to mean mainland britain it means white and refers to the white cliffs of dover

>>77851443
owlman

>>77859326
ah see, i was basing my comment on the celts by nora chadwick
good book if you are interested in celts

>>77863491
There's nothing to say that both aren't applicable, after all what's to stop them being a thing that can fuse an separate at will?
>>77863839
Bit racist of you there, but that's okay.

to sheep in Britain there is one cryptid they fear above all else
one that comes in the night and takes the both the strong and the weak, the old and the young
they strike fast and often without warning
leaving nothing but shocked sheep traumatised to silence
mother sheep warn their lambs not to stray far at night or they too will be grabbed by the monster
they call it the defiler
and they say if you listen carefully on a quiet night you may here the call of the beast as a faint "nos da" echoes in the distance
we however just call them welshman

>>77862569
Concerning that pair; there was an awesome 2000AD strip called London Falling that dealt with creatures from English folklore coming back in the 21st century. Gog and Magog were two giants who stood in the Thames and hammered in giant pillars on either side while shouting "Put it Nigh" and "Heave it Full Home" which ended up being contracted into the names of Putney and Fulham.

>>77864062
>Bit racist of you there
Thanks,
>>77864126
Gog and magog also refer to ancient Nomads from the Steppes from Eurasia, the Scythians etc.

Lots of good stuff already.
I liked this movie for getting across a mythical england in early modernism tone. Cool film to boot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRRvzjkzu2U

>>77864062
>>77864156
i think he meant my alba post
alb/elb words are common and European languages it means white/fair
it's also where the word elf comes from
also words like albino
but in cases like albania alb means hill

>>77859326
Ah yes Tacitus spitballing that they were German only due to there red hair and larger limbs

>>77846388
Anything from Northamptonshire?

>>77864974
Yeah you can generally identify peoples ethnicity by how they look

>>77845290
That's hilarious.

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>>77865397
hey it's adam sandler

>>77865206
Caledonians weren’t fucking Germanic. There is no linguistic, archaeological, or genetic evidence that points to anything like that.

>>77845202
Redcaps hanging out in every old ruin

Knuckers in every well and deep chasm

Black Annis hanging out on the moors on a winter night

Black Dogs out on dark cloudy nights


there are loads of shit in the UK that can possibly fill up a monster manual. Most of them are going to be underhill fairies that cause trouble, or various serpent monsters that hang out in rivers, wells, and lakes. But there is some variety if you look hard enough.

>>77855430
amazing. We have a place called twat in Orkney. It even has a church

>>77845202
For starters, there is a lot of shit that lives in water there. Either in lakes and rivers, to at least 4 different underneath the ocean civilizations.

>Knucker is more of a traditional sea dragon, but it lives in wells and eats villagers
>Kelpies are sea horses that can take other shapes like odd looking people, dogs, floating logs, or regular horses and drag people into lakes to kill and eat them
>Selkies are sea people that wear seal skins and transform into seals
>Kelpies live in an underwater city north of Ireland and travel to the surface with magic red felt hats to go get drunk in pubs, they collect souls of drowned people and bottle them up
>Finfolk live in a large town called Hildalad in the ocean north of Scotland and occasionally kidnap people to be their wives/husbands
>Blue Men are blue human looking people that live in the ocean west of Scotland and summon storms to drown sailors invading their waters
>Grindylows are small green people with long arms that live in swamp lakes and pull people down to eat them

and about 5-6 more creatures that are the same thing as the Kelpie and the Grindylow, sometimes they are individuals with names like Jenny Greenteeth and Nuckelavee. Birtain also has a shitload of ghost-like black dogs, somehow black dogs with glowing eyes that kill people are pretty damn common in the countryside

>>77865397
>>77865647
yeah dude tacitus who wrote a pretty accurate description of the germanic tribes and their lifestyles was wrong when he said the caledonians were germanic
you're a retarded celtoid

>>77866489
Fuck off retard.

>>77845968
Her cousin Bean-nighe will take over instead. It's largely the same behavior but she cannot sing for shit and usually shows up late and drunk to the families she is supposed to haunt. She is kind of judgmental too.

>>77866569
Just suck her tits and she'll perk right up.

>>77855430
A few more to add to this:
Upper Chute
Nether Wallop
Bishop's Wood
Grope Alley

Less snortsome but still tangentially /tg/
Baldwin's Gate
Lichfield
Isle of Wight

>>77845616
This could make for an interesting origin story for the various spectral black dogs that are all over the countryside.

The Barghest, Newgate Dog, Gytrash, Freybug, Dandy Dog, Old Shuck, Dartmoor Grim, Lancaster Shrike, Cabwell's Dogs, it's all pretty much the same thing. Really big black dog with glowing red or yellow eyes, is ghost-like and guards certain areas. They could be past era Grims set up like this only the graveyards fell into ruin or eroded away and the dogs just guard a certain space that no one knows used to be a gravesite.

>>77866489
Well time to take your groundbreaking discovery to Academia then

>>77845202
A lot of English, Irish, and Scottish stories like to talk about how the islands were inhabited by various magical creatures and people before humans showed up. Then it leads to the places still being haunted by the remaining traces of the magic creatures, or still having them living outside society and occasionally attacking a human.

Ireland had a race of one eyed giants, then fairy people, then dead people haunting it before humans eventually showed up and killed a lot of them. The humans being one of the original tribes that built the Tower of Babel, with Gaelic being one of the original 72 languages invented by God.

England was inhabited by a race of giants that took a few hundred years for humans to kill off and take the land. But kept the location names from each of the great giant lords that lived there.

The first Scots were adventurers that came from Troy, then married into the Egyptian royal family, then sailed north towards Scotland and took it from the giants that lived there. Renamed the nation after the Pharaoh Scotia

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We got Island Sheppy in north kent.

Grendal might have lived there.
The island has a Scorpion problem where if you shine a UV torch out in the fields and woods you'll see their carapaces glow in the dark
We get the Corpses of century dead Prisoners thrown off prison hulks wash up on shore
It's also rigged to Explode with 3000 tonnes of unstable explosive sitting off the shoreline.
And The Dutch Forgot they annexed it for 300 years.

Our Island is a stupid one.

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>>77845202
I'm kind of late, but have a map of fictional places in british isles

>>77850939
English towns are just.....ugly. Post industrial brick shitholes.

>>77845353
>>77845374
>>77845396
>>77845421
>>77845438
>>77845488
>>77845519
>white supremacy larps

Not even gonna read the rest of this thread.

>>77867823
Good, now go cut your benis or something dude.

>>77867734
Yep, one dead coal mining town in the North, that's all of the England, sure is.
>>77867823
Retard.

>>77845202
ocal folklore explains the dyke as the work of the Devil. The most popular form of the story begins with the conversion of the Kingdom of Sussex to Christianity. Sussex was the last of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to embrace the new faith, and its conversion infuriated the Devil as he thereby lost his last stronghold in England. He therefore resolved to exterminate its inhabitants by digging a trench through the South Downs so that the sea would flood through and drown of the people of the Sussex Weald. The hermit Cuthman of Steyning found out about the Devil's intentions and came up with a plan to stop him. He proposed a wager - if the Devil could complete the trench in a single night he could have Cuthman's soul, but if he failed then he would have to abandon the project and leave the people of Sussex alone for good. The Devil accepted the wager and began work that night, working his way southward from Poynings toward the sea. The mounds of earth thrown up by his digging formed the nearby hills of Chanctonbury Ring, Cissbury Ring, Mount Caburn and Firle Beacon, and the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. At first Cuthman bided his time, but shortly after midnight he displayed a lit candle in his window while also startling a cock so that it would start crowing in alarm. The light and the sound of the cock crowing convinced the Devil believe that dawn was about break, and thus that he had lost his wager with Cuthman. He therefore ran away in disgrace, leaving behind the unfinished trench henceforth known as Devil's Dyke.[5]

At the bottom of the Dyke are two humps, known as 'the Devil's Graves', under which the Devil and his wife are supposedly buried. Legend has it that if a person runs backwards seven times around these humps whilst holding their breath, the Devil will appear.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Dyke,_Sussex#Folklore

>>77867823
>Cultural events
>White supremacy larping
Anon, are on meds o-
>British
Ah yes, my apologies. Its white peoples cultural celebrations therefore its inherently racist and wrong no matter how old it is.
BTW how is the HRT going?

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>>77867823
>Welsh
>White
We are beyond those pale monkeys

>>77845202
Although revenants are a staple of western fantasy by this point, I do like the historical accounts from which we derive idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenant#William_of_Newburgh

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>>77867823
prejudging another peoples culture as Racist. Major Yikes thats a big No Friend-a-roony best you have a think on that problematic wording before you get cancelled.

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>>77866512
>>77867062
seething celtoids
Caledonians were germanic. The original inhabitants of the british isles were germanic, and the caledonianas were a remnant of them
stay mad swarthy celtoid dogs

>>77868165
0/10

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>>77868251
fuck off celtoid

>>77868165
are you one of those scottish nationalists

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>>77848880
>>77866489
>>77868165
>>77868299
>celtoid
Six times across four posts. At a certain point you just have to wonder why you're even bothering when all of your posts just boil down to the same non-insult.
>L-l-look mam! I posted it again, I called him a celtoid again!

>>77852555
All I have ever seen are people trolling threads making fun of anyone claiming to see a ghost or ufo over and over again while a few religious people have decided to go missionary there and try to convert the /x/ posters to christianity and claim everything in every thread is satanism. With lots of bible quotes

>>77867602
The most monstrous of places; Pontypandy

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what about a nice selkie girl?

>>77868488
One lone hero thwarting the repeated schemes of Ithotu out there.

>>77867984
>Its white peoples cultural celebrations therefore its inherently racist

Except that's 100% true.

>>77868833
Hey, when you get the time you should really think about killing yourself

>>77868833
>The celebrations my people have been performing since before written history are inherently racist because they are by people who are not brown, black or yellow
Are you actually retarded?

>>77869157
Celebrating white "culture" is celebrating white supremacy. It's not that hard to understand.

Especially when said people are well known for kicking off a native people and stealing their land, and appropriating every ounce of the native culture. And look at that, the English did that IN England too. Will wonders never cease.

>>77869336
>Celebrating white "culture" is celebrating white supremacy.
>Especially when said people are well known for kicking off a native people and stealing their land, and appropriating every ounce of the native culture
I always thought the English were pussies but you make them sounds pretty based.

>>77845202
So you want folklore about organized racism, colonizing nations, killing off natives, stealing land, ruining an entire subcontinent, and enforcing Christianity on people and eradicating their own cultural beliefs?

I think I'll pass.

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>>77869157
>>77868833
>replying to blatant /pol/bait
go ahead and log off for me now

NI swine, here.

My area has about as many ghosts as you can shake a stick at (some lad has probably done that already tbf) There was an old Blacksmiths Forge that stood at the end of what is now a busy shopping street, where the resident blacksmith and his mates played cards with the Devil at the turn of the last century.

The local Lough is supposedly home to a massive Serpent who was lashed to the bottom by a lesser known Saint in the 8th Century. When it gets pissed and struggles under the sand, the water gets rough. At the mouth of that same Lough a local fisherman is supposed to have fallen in love with, and then married, a mermaid.

There’s a hill fort about a half hour drive away that has an ancient army sleeping under it, who will only awaken in Ireland’s hour of need. (Ye’s fucked up there, lads)

There’s also a mountain that has a flat top, that they used to say was caused by a Giant, who flattened it out to use as a dinner table.

>>77869763
>who will only awaken in Ireland’s hour of need.
I am very worried about what Ireland's hour of greatest need is going to be now if they never bothered to get up over the last eight centuries

>>77858723
I wasn't aware of this and happen to live very close by (honestly not joking) so thanks for making me aware.

>>77869999
May your quads defend you from the call of the stream faeries

>>77869999
It's okay to swim in it if you have a floatation device, a lifevest will save you. There's no chance you'll end up swept into the hidden caves under the rock. Don't bother scouting it out with a go-pro on a string first, just go for it, it will be okay.

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The story originated when Tony "Doc" Shiels claimed to have investigated a report of two young girls on holiday in Mawnan who saw a large winged creature hovering above the tower of St Mawnan and St Stephen's Church, Mawnan on 17 April 1976. According to most versions of the story, the girls, identified as June and Vicky Melling, were so frightened by the sight of a large "feathered bird-man" that their father Don immediately cut short their family holiday after hearing their tale. According to Sheils, one of the girls provided him with a drawing of the creature, which he dubbed "Owlman".

The story was subsequently related in a pamphlet entitled Morgawr: The Monster of Falmouth Bay by Anthony Mawnan-Peller, which circulated throughout Cornwall in 1976. According to Shiels, "Owlman" was reported again on 3 July by two 14-year-old girls identified as Sally Chapman and Barbara Perry, who were aware of the "Owlman" tale. According to the story, the two girls were camping when they were confronted by "a big owl with pointed ears, as big as a man" with glowing eyes and black, pincer-like claws.

Sporadic claims of "Owlman" sightings in the vicinity of the church circulated in 1978, 1979, 1989, and 1995, and according to legend, a "loud, owl-like sound" could be heard at night in the Mullion church yard during the year 2000.

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>>77868372
>>77868442
England and Scotland are germanic nations.
Celtoids get mad at this since they're civilised romanised cucks mad at the superiority of the forest dwelling nature loving germanic fur clad anglo saxon barbarian savage

>>77870804
...Varg? Is that you? Where do you keep finding all these extra chromosomes?

>>77867823
take your meds schizo

>>77870804
>>77848880
>Celtoid
Why are you adding -oid obsessively each time you fucking /int/oid

>>77871062
>varg
Nord weakling faggot who thinks headhunting and cannibalising your enemies is bad
>>77871340
Nobody cares celtoid

This thread really went downhill over the last 24 hours.

>>77867734
That one is. They don't all look the same.

>>77871842
I posted tons titbits from my book on folklore yesterday then, as usual, a bunch of braindead culture war addicts came in and decided to shit up the thread so I just gave up and left it to see if it started to pick up again. As per 4chan standards since 2016 I was disappointed.

>>77871842
The trolls have moved in.

>>77871842
One spastic is all it takes