https://folklorefinder.uk/ Recently added myths, legends, ghosts and folklore from across Britain and Ireland. en-gb Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:18:44 GMT https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/canthrig-bwt https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/canthrig-bwt Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Giants A child-eating giantess-witch lurked beneath a stone bridge in the Llanberis Pass, devouring local children until villagers cornered and beheaded her with… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/denbigh-dragon https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/denbigh-dragon Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dragons A giant knight with eight fingers and two thumbs on each hand slew the dragon nesting in Denbigh Castle's great hall — and the townsfolk's cry of 'Dim… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/dragon-of-ludham https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/dragon-of-ludham Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dragons A dragon tunnelled beneath Ludham's churchyard for years, bursting out nightly until one villager sealed its lair — the enraged beast fled in flames to St… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/ellen-trechend https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/ellen-trechend Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Beasts A three-headed monster burst from the cave of Cruachan and laid waste to Ireland until the poet-warrior Amergin slew it at Mag Mucrama. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/florence-newton https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/florence-newton Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Florence Newton, the 'Witch of Youghal', was tried for witchcraft in County Cork in 1661 after allegedly bewitching a servant girl with a kiss — one of… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/gunby-hall-ghost-walk https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/gunby-hall-ghost-walk Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ghosts A jealous squire shot his daughter's lover dead and dumped his body in the pond — the murdered postillion still walks 'Ghost Walk' awaiting his love. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/hard-apple-blyth-the-smuggler-of-paglesham https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/hard-apple-blyth-the-smuggler-of-paglesham Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Pirates Paglesham's churchwarden, grocer and parish constable William 'Hard Apple' Blyth ran a smuggling operation under the noses of the very authorities he was… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/kirk-yetholm-seat-of-the-gypsy-kings https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/kirk-yetholm-seat-of-the-gypsy-kings Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sacred Sites Kirk Yetholm, on the Scottish Borders, was the traditional seat of the Romani 'Gypsy Kings' — the Faa dynasty — for centuries, culminating in the crowning… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/llandeilo-graban-dragon https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/llandeilo-graban-dragon Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dragons A dragon nesting in the church belfry was destroyed by a blacksmith's iron decoy rigged with hidden spikes — said to be Wales's last dragon-slaying. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/llyn-morwynion https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/llyn-morwynion Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sacred Sites Llyn Morwynion, 'Lake of the Maidens' above Ffestiniog, is where Blodeuwedd's maidens drowned fleeing Gwydion in the Mabinogion — and where abducted… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/loch-na-beiste-water-horse-mellon-udrigle https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/loch-na-beiste-water-horse-mellon-udrigle Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Beasts Loch na Beiste — 'Loch of the Beast' — near Mellon Udrigle was so feared that a 19th-century minister attempted to drain it after locals reported a… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/lough-ree-monster https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/lough-ree-monster Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Beasts Three priests fishing near Glasson in 1960 watched a 20-foot serpentine creature glide across Lough Ree — the latest in centuries of sightings on… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/mackinnon-s-cave https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/mackinnon-s-cave Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Giants A clan piper led companions into this sea cave to test his skill against its monstrous cave-dwelling ogress — his pipes still seem to echo from the rock… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/margaret-finch https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/margaret-finch Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Margaret Finch, the 'Queen of the Norwood Gypsies', was a celebrated fortune-teller so accustomed to sitting in a crouched posture that she had to be… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/marshal-brain-of-clongowes-wood https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/marshal-brain-of-clongowes-wood Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ghosts In 1757, the ghost of an Austrian-army officer appeared to two sisters at Clongowes Wood, describing his uniform in perfect detail — to announce, at the… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/old-man-of-storr https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/old-man-of-storr Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Giants A 55-metre pinnacle on the Trotternish Ridge is said to be the petrified thumb of a buried giant — left jutting from the earth when the rest of him was… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/petronilla-de-meath https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/petronilla-de-meath Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Petronilla de Meath, maidservant of Alice Kyteler, was burned at Kilkenny on 3 November 1324 — the first person executed for witchcraft in Ireland, after… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/sarey-bowers-of-kirtlington https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/sarey-bowers-of-kirtlington Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Local huntsmen blamed Sarey Bowers of Foxtownsend for bewitching foxes to escape and hounds to lose the scent — one tale has an uncatchable vixen vanish… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/the-curse-of-the-campbells-of-jura https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/the-curse-of-the-campbells-of-jura Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches A witch evicted by the grasping Campbells of Jura cursed their last laird to be one-eyed and leave the island by horse-cart — fulfilled to the letter in… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/the-pump-hill-smuggler https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/the-pump-hill-smuggler Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ghosts A headless, legless smuggler — his head dangling between his shoulders — still drags a sack of plunder through Happisburgh, groaning from an old well… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/white-lady-of-tattershall-castle https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/white-lady-of-tattershall-castle Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ghosts A glimmering woman in a medieval headdress has paced the battlements of Tattershall Castle for centuries, forever waiting for a lost love who never… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/windhouse https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/windhouse Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ghosts Reputedly Shetland's most haunted house — a 'Lady in Silk' glides the stairs, a phantom dog roams the halls, and a shipwrecked sailor's troll-fight became… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/witch-of-slieu-whallian https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/witch-of-slieu-whallian Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Suspected witches were sealed into spiked barrels and rolled down Slieau Whallian — the bare scar of 'the Witch's Way' still marks where one woman's… https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/witches-of-garway-hill https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/witches-of-garway-hill Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Nine wise women said to dwell along Garway Hill, one of whom revealed that a grieving widower's dead wife had really been taken by the fairies. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/hellfire-club-montpelier-hill https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/hellfire-club-montpelier-hill Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ghosts A ruined hunting lodge built atop a desecrated passage tomb, where a card-playing stranger was unmasked as the Devil with cloven hooves. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/jack-rattenbury https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/jack-rattenbury Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Pirates Devon's 'Rob Roy of the West' — a notorious smuggler from Beer whose dictated 1837 memoir is a rare first-hand account of the free-trade era. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/lilias-adie https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/lilias-adie Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Accused of witchcraft and consorting with the Devil, she died in prison and was buried in a unique intertidal grave to stop her returning. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/llanddona-witches https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/llanddona-witches Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Exiled witches washed ashore at Llanddona in a rudderless boat, conjured a freshwater spring from the sand, and settled to terrorise the parish. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/molly-downer https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/molly-downer Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches Reputed to be the last witch of the Isle of Wight, she lived at 'Witches Hatch' near Bembridge and cursed a tormentor with fatal bad luck. https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/witch-s-stone-of-westleton https://folklorefinder.uk/legends/witch-s-stone-of-westleton Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Witches A fallen 14th-century gravestone at St Peter's Church where running anti-clockwise with a handkerchief is said to summon the Devil.