In the UK at this time of the year the woodlands are awash with a carpet of bluebells. However as beloved as these wild flowers are, they ha...

Keeping with our midsummer theme, here is a reading of a Victorian poem rich in faery folklore, in which Irish poet William Allingham reveal...

Midsummer’s Day, also known as St John’s Day, is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and I’m sure I don’t need to remind ...

In this selection from previous Folklore on Friday articles, we are once more rounding up assorted strange creatures and denizens of the...

This week on Folklore Flashback, we are headed down to Cornwall, to sample one of the all-time great British delicacies, the Cornish pa...

This week on Folklore Flashback we round up some of the denizens of the supernatural world, in particular various local entities of a dis...

Now then, last year I did some investigation into a very curious case. In the early 19th century, a strange discovery was made just out...

Welcome to the first in a new series of occasional blog entries. As some of you may know, for the last few years I've been writ...

Over the past few instalments of Folklore on Friday, we have been tracing the folklore of the bluebell, and last time we discovered t...

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been exploring the legends and lore surrounding the humble bluebell. We first uncovered a wealth...

This week Mr Jim Moon delves into the works of one of the all-time great writers of weird tales Mr Algernon Blackwood. As an introduction...

Well it appears that often seemingly mythical beast, the British Summer is finally here! The temperature is up, the sun is shining, and...

Following on from our Labyrinth episode, Mr Jim Moon delves into the legend and lore of the changelings, monstrous impostors left by the...

The Changeling by Henry Fuseli Across the world, one of the most common beliefs is that we share this world with other races. Many cul...

With Halloween just around the corner, Mr Jim Moon explores the secret history of the jack-o-lantern, investigating their folkloric fore...

Lincolnshire is a large rural county in the east of England, and while it's landscape may be extremely flat and lacking in scenic fe...