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Hob Hurst’s House in the Peak District is a prehistoric funerary monument whose later name attached the site to a local “hob” tradition. The archaeological monument is far older than the supernatural name associated…
Open archive record →A later Christian legend associated the Glastonbury Thorn in Somerset with Joseph of Arimathea. In the story, Joseph reached Glastonbury and planted his staff in the ground, where it took root and became a…
Open archive record →West Country tradition used the idea of being “pixy-led” to describe a traveller becoming bewildered, circling or losing direction, sometimes on ground they expected to know. The motif is particularly associated with Devon and…
Open archive record →Tintagel in Cornwall became strongly associated with the Arthurian story through Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth-century Historia Regum Britanniae, which placed the conception of Arthur at Tintagel. The tradition belongs to the site’s literary and…
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