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Tim Sandles makes the point that the River Dart can end up swollen, and if it coincides with a north westerly wind, the river seems to cry. People think the river spirit cries when it claims its annual life (2016). Given the fact that the river is at its most dangerous when it’s in full force, you can see why people might attribute that to a vengeful spirit. But they’re also dangerous places with their fast currents and murky depths. They might look inviting on a warm day, but it’s easy to get into trouble. Telling tales of long-limbed hags or creatures with a taste for human flesh is one way to keep people out of harm’s way. Gilt bronze head from the cult statue of Sulis Minerva from the Temple at Bath, found in Stall Street in 1727 and now displayed at the Roman Baths (Bath). By Hchc2009 [ CC BY-SA 4.0] Sandles, Tim (2016), ‘River Dart Claim’st a Heart’, Legendary Dartmoor, https://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/river-dart-claimst-a-heart.htm.

Clarke, David (2017), ‘Dead Flows the Don’, Dr David Clarke, https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/2017/03/30/dead-flows-the-don/. He further notes that the 19th-century historian Joseph Hunter thought the rhyme may have referred to sacrifices made to the water gods (2012). Clarke explains that the ancients considered rivers to be female, and he notes the belief that the Don was named for Danu, a Celtic mother goddess (2017). Dartmoor Of course, it’s not just spirits that live in rivers. Other lore surrounds the waters that could sustain a community or steal away life. It’s also while fishing in the river Wear one Sunday that the heir of Lambton caught a strange worm. Freaked out by its weird appearance, the young man tossed it down a nearby well. Eventually, the worm grew to mammoth proportions and became the Lambton Worm. Lorelei and the Rhine Romanbaths.co.uk (2014), ‘UNESCO Memory of the World’, Romanbaths.co.uk, https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/news/unesco-memory-world.Petridis, Alexis (2012), ‘Danger! The world’s scariest films!’, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/mar/30/danger-world-scariest-films. Full of maps with icons for things like ‘Drowned or Lost Lands’, ‘Mysterious Stones’ or ‘Bells’, the book portrays a Britain that is full of strangeness and mystery: strangeness and mystery that is happening all around you. Chap-books and Folk-lore Tracts, 1st ser., v 2: The history of the seven wise masters of Rome [Villon Society]

The Denham Tracts: [v2] A collection of folklore, repr from the original tracts & pamphlets printed by Denham The traditional games of England, Scotland & Ireland, w/tunes, singing rhymes & methods of playing ... v 2: Oa We were haunted children of a haunted isle. The more esoteric wing of hippiedom, intent on finding an alternative to the wipe-clean modernism of the sixties, discovered that their great-grandparents had tried exactly the same thing.The Denham Tracts: [v1] A collection of folklore, repr from the original tracts & pamphlets printed by Denham The traditional games of England, Scotland & Ireland, w/tunes, singing rhymes & methods of playing ... v 1: Ac

Woodcut published in The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells Of England, including Rivers, Lakes, Fountains and Springs. Copiously Illustrated By Curious Original Woodcuts. by Robert Charles Hope, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., in 1893 [Public Domain] Victorian folklorists set out to rediscover the pre-industrial traditions of Britain and ended up reinventing a lot of them. The flower children reinvented a bit more. Historians, occultists, anthropologists and drop-outs all weaved a vision of a country that was weirder and more entertaining than the motorways and service stations that strung it together. The result was an alternative version of both received history and expected futures; an outlook that insisted on questioning the national story and offered an alternate identity to the coming generation. (The folk horror of the ‘70s, in which traditions became threats and hedge-row spirits became devils, was largely a regressive, religious response to this movement.) It offered a different idea of Britain. Different to the modern world of hovercraft and computers, or the stifling establishment of gentlemen’s clubs and the W.I. British ley lines instead of British Leyland. A place of shadowed, high-hedged and twisting lanes, of half-remembered gods and drowned and forgotten lands. It gave us a sense of place, and a sense of enchantment in that place. It made our country magic. Chap-books and Folk-lore Tracts, 1st ser., v 3: Mother Bunch's closet newly broke open, & the History of Mother Bunch of the west. [Villon Around 1000 votive offerings of bronze and stone were found at her temple, and they most commonly represent the body part in need of healing. Other, more general effigies show the devotee holding an offering, such as fruit, a dog, or a purse of money (Deyts 1971: 69). These show a sense of general devotion to Sequana, alongside the requests for healing. Dark Water SpiritsNotices of fugitive tracts: And chap-books printed at Aldermary churchyard, Bow churchyard, etc. [Percy Society] Reader’s Digest (1973), Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain, London: Reader’s Digest Association. The grindylow appears in British folklore as a cautionary tale. Sometimes known as Jenny Greenteeth, the grindylow lurks in English rivers, ponds and marshes. According to the legends, these nasty critters dragged children into the deepest parts of the rivers if they ventured into the shallows. Observations on popular antiquities, [v2] chiefly illustrating the origin of our vulgar customs, ceremonies &

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