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Author : William Brockie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Legends & superstitions of the County of Durham written by William Brockie and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Brockie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Legends & Superstitions of the County of Durham written by William Brockie and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Bushnell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750986050
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book County Durham Folk Tales written by Adam Bushnell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storyteller and author Adam Bushnell brings together stories from the rugged coastlines, limestone cliffs, remote moorland, pastoral dales and settled coalfields of County Durham. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet the evil fairies of Weardale, the shape-changing witch from Easington, the Bishop Auckland boar, the Dun Cow from Durham City and many other characters – all as fantastical and powerful as the landscape they inhabit. Retold in an engaging style, and richly illustrated with unique line drawings, these humorous, clever and enchanting folk tales are sure to be enjoyed and shared time and again.
Author : Martin Dufferwiel
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750957352
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The A-Z of Curious County Durham written by Martin Dufferwiel and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws upon the varied history and unique heritage of the County Palatine of Durham, an ancient land of saints and warlords. It is a catalogue of curious tales, odd anecdotes and quirky characters from County Durham's past. Within its pages the reader will discover stories of hauntings, murders and mysterious deaths, while modern-day enigmas – such as the ancient structure that archaeologists remain at a loss to explain, or the lost treasure found at the bottom of the River Wear – are revisited. Inspired in part by the chronicles and compendiums of County Durham's nineteenth-century historians and antiquarians, this book is a miscellany – at times tragic, at times comic, but always entertaining. And for those for whom the collective subjects hold a perennial fascination, it is ideal for dipping into, perhaps to learn something new about wonderfully curious County Durham.
Author : Sarah Bartels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000348040
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Devil and the Victorians written by Sarah Bartels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.
Author : Edwin Radford
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760702284
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Superstitions written by Edwin Radford and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more that two thousand supersitions of Britain ranging over the past six hundred years, and extending down to the present day,this book demonstrates that superstitions are world-wide and inherent in all peoples of the world in exactly identical forms of fear and avoidance.
Author : Jennifer Westwood
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959533
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Haunted England written by Jennifer Westwood and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Dufferwiel
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780573944
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Durham written by Martin Dufferwiel and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historic City of Durham is now over 1,000 years old. With its magnificent Norman Cathedral and Castle it has become a world famous tourist attraction, the outstanding importance of which was recognised in 1987 when it was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.Martin Dufferveil's book is a celebration of this unique City and of the Country that has grown up around it, from the day in AD 995 when a group of monks carrying the coffin of St Cuthbert settled on what was then known as the 'Dunholm' to the present time. From the original site on the high wooded rock, a settlement began to take shape. It was one which would be swelled by pilgrims and made wealthy by their offerings, and which would eventually become one of the most important sites of religious pilgrimage and military power in England. Many events and people have, throughout the last millennium, lit up the long story of Durham, in both fact and fable. This book recalls some of them. Wars, saints, kings and mythical beasts are all included in this tale of over 1,000 years as are surveyors, locomotive engineers and miners. It is all here from the long sagas of the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil War, to the legendary Lampton Worm; from Canute the Great, Viking Emperor, to murder most foul at Gutty Throat Farm; and from the ravages of William the Conqueror, to the bizarre plan to turn Durham City into a port. Steam locomotives for the Tsar of Russia and Dixieland in the USA both had their origins here in Durham, and both feature in this book.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book County Folk-lore written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophia Kingshill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409038459
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Fabled Coast written by Sophia Kingshill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen’s prayers and sailors’ rituals – the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions. In The Fabled Coast, renowned folklorists Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood gather together the most enthralling tales and traditions, tracing their origins and examining the facts behind the legends. Was there ever such a beast as the monstrous Kraken? Did a Welsh prince discover America, centuries before Columbus? What happened to the missing crew of the Mary Celeste? Along the way, they recount the stories that are an integral part of our coastal heritage, such as the tale of Drake’s Drum, said to be heard when England was in peril, and the mythical island of Hy Brazil, which for centuries appeared on sea charts and maps to the west of Ireland. The result is an endlessly fascinating, often surprising journey through our island history.
Author : Darrell S. Nixon
Publisher : Darrell S. Nixon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Demonic County Durham: The Edmundbyers Exorcism near Durham, 1641 written by Darrell S. Nixon and published by Darrell S. Nixon. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ‘Demonic County Durham’ author of ‘Axe Murder in Ferry-Hill near Durham, 1682’ and ‘The Vengeful Spirit of Lumley & Willington near Durham, 1630’, comes the final book of this terrifying trilogy… 15 November 1641. Margaret Hooper returns home to the small hamlet of Edmundbyers, following an errand for her ill husband; her mind was troubled. It would seem that she had come into contact with someone or something that had vexed her on her journey and she would continue with her agitation until she went to bed. This would start a very frightening demonic visitation and possession to be ever recorded in County Durham. It would be her family’s belief in God and a miraculous intervention that would finally save her from the evil that tormented her. Welcome to Hell…
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book County Folk-lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578428
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Stations of the Sun written by Ronald Hutton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. He challenges many common assumptions about the customs of the past, and debunks many myths surrounding festivals of the present, to illuminate the history of the calendar year we live by today.
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Thompson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597527955
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Baptism, Church and Society in Modern Britain written by David M. Thompson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an enlarged version of the author's Hulsean Lectures in the University of Cambridge for 1983-4. It considers the main movements in the theology of baptism, both that of infants and believers, in Great Britain from the Evangelical Revival to the publication of the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission's consensus statement on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry of 1982. Thus as well as the shifts in the Church of England from evangelical to tractarian, 'broad church' to liberal catholic, there is a survey of the views of Methodists, Baptists and Congregationalists, with reflections from the scene in Scotland and Ireland, during the same period. It offers a survey of popular belief and practice about baptism from the eighteenth century to the present, because of the author's conviction that theological movements have to be seen in their historical context. In the case of baptism, in particular, a consistent difference has persisted between popular perceptions and the Churches' expectations, which poses significant challenges to the understanding of the Churches' mission in contemporary society.
