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Here at Uncanny UK, we are always pleased to receive genuine accounts of encounters with the supernatural.
Perhaps you have seen a ghost, glimpsed a fairy or caught sight of a strange creature prowling through the countryside.
If you have had a weird experience, or can report one had by a relative, we’ll be very interested to hear about it. Uncanny UK is the place to record previously undocumented supernatural encounters.
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Tag Archives: British folk remedies
Curing a bug – white witchcraft in Wales
Years ago I wrote a book called Bye-gones, a collection of quirky history and folklore from an old Welsh borderland periodical of that name. That little book only scratched the surface of the extraordinary and abstruse information contained in its … Continue reading
Kill or cure (pt 2)
Folk healing of the past often included gruesome ingredients and practices Continue reading
Kill or cure (pt 1)
Folk remedies were based on principles that seem bizarre today and they included some very ‘nasty medicines’ indeed Continue reading