The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys - Softcover

Simpson, Jacqueline; Westwood, Jennifer

 
9780141021034: The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141021039 ISBN 13: 9780141021034
Verlag: Penguin, 2006

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Where can you find the ‘Devil’s footprints’? What happened at the ‘hangman’s stone’? Did Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, ever really exist? Where was King Arthur laid to rest? Bringing together tales of hauntings, highwaymen, family curses and lovers’ leaps, this magnificent guide will take you on a magical journey through England’s legendary past.

‘A fascinating county-by county guidebook to the headless horsemen, bottomless pools, immured adulteresses and talking animals that make up the hidden landscape of the country.’ London Review of Books

‘Evokes an England terrified by screaming skulls, tantalized by hidden treasure, spooked by the unearthly clanging of bells, bewitched by fairies and hobgoblins’ Country Life

‘Wonderful… Contains almost every myth, legend and ghost story ever told in England’ Simon Hoggart, Guardian

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jennifer Westwood's books include Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain (1985), Gothick Cornwall (1992), Lost Atlantis (1997) and On Pilgrimage (2003). Dr Jacqueline Simpson's books include Icelandic Folktales and Legends (1971, 2004), The Folklore of the Welsh Border (1976, 2004), British Dragons (1980, 2000), and, with Steve Roud, A Dictionary of English Folklore (2000). She lives in West Sussex.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141021039
ISBN 13 
9780141021034
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
928
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