Simon’s British Mythology Substack
simon youngWelcome to the British dreamtime. A valiant attempt to recreate the mythology of Britain's best documented supernatural generations, the long nineteenth century, from 1765-1918. Fairies to ghosts, witchcraft to priestcraft, angels to devils....
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Why Victorian Men Confessed to Raising the Devil
Miserrimus and the Devil
One of the most unlikely monuments in British mythology is to be found in the cloister of Worcester Cathedral: a single stone with the sole word, Miserrimus (‘most wretched’), written upon it. This simple grav...
Magical Thinking: Football, Skinner's Pigeons and Brighton Rock
Lumumba and Magical Thinking
Last week saw the end of the the most enjoyable World Cup of my lifetime. And the personality of the competition? For me it was not Mbappe or Messi, but the Congolese superfan, Lumumba Vea. LV went to Cong...
Flying with the Spirits British-Style: Jacob and the Tall Man
Airlifted by the Spirits
Alex Langstone has recently written on an all but forgotten seventeenth-century pamphlet: Strange and wonderful news from Cornwall. An account of a miraculous accident that lately happen’d near the town of Bod...
The Miner, the Monkey and the Horse: How Folklore Distorts Experience
Folklore Kills Anomalous Experiences
Individuals sometimes have inexplicable experiences: a face floats by an upper storey window; a voice comes from a locked room; house keys disappear and reappear in unaccountable places… I want to...
Aaron, the Nymph and Nudity in Nineteenth-Century Derbyshire
Introducing Aaron
First the biographical facts - and they are extraordinary… Aaron Ashton was born 14 February 1732 in a cottage on the Aspenshaw estate just to the north of the Derbyshire village of Hayfield. This was hill country (h...
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British folklore writer: author of The Boggart: Folklore, History, Placenames and Dialect (Exeter University Press 2022) and The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends (Mississippi University Press 2022).
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