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What’s your story?
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.
Please send your story to: editor@uncannyuk.com
Tag Archives: English fairylore
A Suffolk poltergeist in the Middle Ages
From P G Maxwell-Stuart’s excellent book on ‘Poltergeists’ comes this extract (in translation) from the works of Ralph of Coggeshall about a Suffolk poltergeist which manifested some time between 1189 and 1199. “At Dagworth in Suffolk during the reign of … Continue reading
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Was this the final home of the fairies in England?
MARK DAVIES revisits the local legend of Harrow Hill, in Sussex, where it is claimed the fairies lived well into the 20th century. Just over a mile to the north-west of Worthing, on the West Sussex coast, you will find … Continue reading
What are fairies?
An overview of one of the richest aspects of British folklore Continue reading
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Tagged British fairies, British fairylore, British goblins, English fairylore, fairies in Britain, fairies in England, fairies in Scotland, fairies in Wales, Katherine Briggs, Reginald Scot, Scottish fairies, Scottish fairylore, Seelie and Unseelie, Tylwyth Teg, Welsh fairies, Welsh fairylore, Will-o’-the-Wisp
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