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Dec 15 Tiddy Mun: The Vengeful Spirit of the Ancholme Marsh

Once called the Lincolnshire Carrs (from the Old Norse “kjarr”, meaning ‘swamp’), this isolated wetland in the shadow of the rolling Humber marked the southern boundaries of the Anglo-Norse world of the Danelaw, leaving their place names, dialect words and log boats behind them, and the boundaries between the world of spirit and the world of men.

These dark lonely waters drew hermits, Anchorites, and the Gilbertine priory of Newstead on Ancholme, and birthed tales of dead men’s voices and cold sepulchral fingers grasping at the ankles of the unwary, dancing will o’ the wisps leading travellers to their deaths, witches who rode blackened branches, and – in the words of folklorist Katharine Mary Briggs (1898-1980) – “queer, primeval, dangerous spirits, breathing pestilence.”

Trained as a journalist, James has worked as a writer and editor for over a decade, launching three history magazines and one true crime magazine.

He knows a worrying amount about some of the strangest things

Dec 15 Tiddy Mun: The Vengeful Spirit of the Ancholme Marsh

Trained as a journalist, James has been an editor and writer for over a decade, specialising in war, witchcraft, and weirdness.

Trained as a journalist, James has worked as a writer and editor for over a decade, launching three history magazines and one true crime magazine.

He knows a worrying amount about some of the strangest things

Dec 15 Tiddy Mun: The Vengeful Spirit of the Ancholme Marsh

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Trained as a journalist, James has been an editor and writer for over a decade, specialising in war, witchcraft, and weirdness.