A collection of twenty folk or fairy tales from across Yorkshire. Including stories of dragons, giants, and other legendary happenings.
Most are traditional stories, but a few are new stories based on scraps of traditional legends of the Huddersfield area.
The stories are:
- Billy Biter and Filey Brigg
- The Building of the Kirk at Heaton
- The Crafty Ploughboy, or Yorkshire Bite
- The Donkey, the Table, and the Stick
- The Dragon of Loschy Wood
- The Dragon of Wantley
- The Drummer boy of Richmond
- The Farndale Hob
- The Giant of Dalton Mill
- The Giant of Sessay
- The Golden Cradle and Castle Hill
- The Legend of Semerwater
- The Marsden Cuckoo
- The Miserly Judge or ‘He had paid for it’
- Potter Thompson
- The Serpent of Handale
- The Seven Sisters & Their Bad Neighbour
- Upsall and its Crocks of Gold
- Wadda of Mulgrave, and Bell, his wife
- The Wicked Giant of Penhill
Table of Content
Introduction 1
Billy Biter and Filey Brigg 3
The Building of the Kirk at Heaton 6
The Crafty Ploughboy, or Yorkshire Bite 9
The Donkey, the Table, and the Stick 13
The Dragon of Loschy Wood 19
The Dragon of Wantley 23
The Drummer boy of Richmond 28
The Farndale Hob 30
The Giant of Dalton Mill 35
The Giant of Sessay 38
The Golden Cradle and Castle Hill 44
The Legend of Semerwater 48
The Marsden Cuckoo 51
The Miserly Judge or ‘He had paid for it’ 53
Potter Thompson 56
The Serpent of Handale 59
The Seven Sisters & Their Bad Neighbour 61
Upsall and its Crocks of Gold 66
Wadda of Mulgrave, and Bell, his wife. 70
The Wicked Giant of Penhill 73
About the author
Andrew Walsh is a Teaching Fellow and Librarian, but his favourite description of what he does comes from his daughter – ‘A librarian who teaches grown-ups how to play’.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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