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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: FOLKLORE

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Volume 8

FORGOTTEN FOLK-TALES OF THE ENGLISH COUNTIES

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FORGOTTEN FOLK-TALES OF THE ENGLISH COUNTIES

COLLECTED BY

RUTH L. TONGUE

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

KATHARINE BRIGGS

First published in 1970

This edition first published in 2015
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

1970 Ruth L. Tongue

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN: 978-1-138-84217-5 (Set)
ISBN: 978-1-138-84295-3 (Volume 8)

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Forgotten Folk-tales of the English Counties

Collected by

Ruth L. Tongue

With an Introduction by

Katharine Briggs

First published in 1973

First published 1970

by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited,

Broadway House, 6874 Carter Lane,

London E.C.4.

Printed in Great Britain by

Western Printing Services Ltd Bristol

Ruth L. Tongue 1970

No part of this book may be reproduced

in any form without permission from

the publisher, except for the quotation

of brief passages in criticism.

ISBN 07100 6833 6

To Sylvia Stevens, who heartened me

when recovering and worked steadily

to guide my hesitant memory back to

an enjoyable, quiet routine. It is

due to her selfless efforts that these

tales are no longer forgotten.

Contents

Two Uncanny Folk

County	Tale	Page
Bedfordshire	Counting the Cabbages
The Long, Long Worm
Berkshire	Hemes Horn
Buckinghamshire	Ghosts Dont Like Iron
Grandads Dog
Have a Mind to Misbourne
Cambridgeshire	The Sign
The Wounded Swan
Cheshire	The Asrai
The Cheshire Cheese that went to Heaven
The Hound of the Hill
Cornwall	The Daisy Dog
The Great Big Fish
Cumberland	Silken Janet (or Mucketty Meg)
The Solway Worm
The Vixen and the Oakmen
Derbyshire	Crooker
Food and Fire and Company
The Green Ladies of One Tree Hill
The Three Valiant Lads
Winlatter Rock
Devonshire	Call up the Chimney
The Clammer Bridge
Dorset	Jack-with- the- Lantern
Lazy Lawrence
The Three Pigs
Walters Men
Durham	The Butcher and the Tick-man
Essex	The Hyter Sprites
Gloucestershire	The Farys Mist-gate
Jakey Bascombe and the Cob
Jinnys Gibbet
Hampshire	The Hare and the Harbourer
The Red Kings Deer
Red, Red Rags
Herefordshire	Adam and Biddy
The Hare and the Harbourer
The Long Ladder
Hertfordshire	Whippendell Woods
Huntingdonshire	Criss-cross
Silly Kit and Down-a-down
Kent	The Dene Hole Dragon
Poor Malls Pilgrimage
The Travelling Tree
Lancashire	The Boggart in Top Attic
A Cure for Toothache
Silken Janet (or Mucketty Meg)
The Wash Mug
The Workhus Bed
Leicestershire	Black Annis
Rats Castle
Lincolnshire	Drowning Jerusalem
In My Pocket
Middlesex	The Grigs Red Cap
Grims Dyke
Norfolk	The Mermaid and the Trawlermen
The Shuck
The Undersea Bells
Northamptonshire	The Jug
Northumberland	Bubbling Well and Black Tarn
Gilslands Gry
The Little Wee Tyke
Nottinghamshire	The Grey Mare is the Better Horse
Oxfordshire	The Farys Mist-gate
The Harvest Firkin
The Treasure and the Dreams
True John and Greedy Jack
Rutland	Four Eggs a Penny
Shropshire	The Asrai
The Hare and the Harbourer
The Man who went Fishing on Sunday
Silvertoes and Timbertoes
Somerset	The Claverton Books
The Courageous Fellow
A Cure for Toothache
The Little Cup-maker
The Men in the Turnip Field
No One Living
Room for a Little One
Tom Tiddlers Ground
(Exmoor)	The Noontide Ghost
(Mendip)	The White Hart of Kilmersdon
(Sedgemoor)	The Hob who was a Watchman
(Severn Coast)	The Elder Tree Witch
(Severn Coast)	The Sea-morgans Baby
(Severn Coast)	The Sea Terror
Staffordshire	Food and Fire and Company
Suffolk	The Lantern Lads
The Shuck
Surrey	London City
Whistling Jimmy
Sussex	The Basket of Lilies
The Dene Hole Dragon
Warwickshire	The Two Ponies
The Wonderful Wood
Westmorland	Tom Cockle
Tom Tiddlers Ground
Wiltshire	The Claverton Books
The Collingbourne Kingston Black Dog

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