England's Forgotten Monsters: Strange Beings, Spirits, Omens, Witches, and Folk Beliefs from the Denham Tracts

England was once full of things.Before electric light, before modern roads, before rural England forgot the names whispered at crossroads and cottage doors, the country lived beside a crowded invisible world. Boggarts troubled barns. Black dogs waited on lonely lanes. Corpse lights moved over marshes. Redcaps kept to ruined towers. Witches, hobs, fairies, knockers, water spirits, omens, charms, an...