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In Cumbrian dialect, 'wiggen-tree' is the rowan tree. Plant a rowan tree in your garden to ward off evil influence, and provide a home for benevolent faeries


art: Arthur Rackham

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2023-01-16


'Add a face to an everyday background'.
The odd one out...
Today's challenge that appeared in my inbox this morning was set by library staff & community connectors in Cumbria!
Many thanks to for organising.

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2023-01-06

I’m enjoying summer vibes whilst working on this piece…and dreaming of Spring! Hope you’ve not got the January blues yet!

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2023-01-03

Some of my portraits which are more about…how to put it🤔, our energetic interaction with our world… than about how we appear superficially. Inspired by thoughts, emotions, & ancestral & environmental connections.

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2022-12-30

December's

We have a family tradition of telling ghost stories over the Festive period. I write about it's origin, the Banshee encounter, and tell a few Cumbrian folk tales also
https://t.co/t2GbnlIC9S

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2022-12-22

Many Ulverston locals will avoid the eerie woods at Plumpton, and lurking in the water of the flooded iron mines nearby, lives Jenny Greenteeth. She's a 'river hag' who pulls children and the elderly into the water to drown them


artist: unknown

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2022-12-17

The 'Broon Man of the Moors and Mountains' is solitary dwarf who serves as the guardian of all wild animals. His dress is the colour of winter bracken and he sports red frizzled hair.
https://t.co/FmGSPy2FhX


art: Amanda Moffet

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2022-12-17

The natives of Renwick, Cumbria were once known as “bats” due to the monstrous creature that is said to have flown around their ruined church at night 🦇


art: Matthew Starbuck

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2022-12-16

Having a bad dream? A household Boggart will sneak into your bedroom at night and squeeze your big toe!
https://t.co/VuWsNHv4Wa

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2022-12-14

December's

We have a family tradition of telling ghost stories over the Festive period. I write about it's origin - the Banshee encounter, and tell a few Cumbrian folk tales also

https://t.co/t2GbnlIC9S

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2022-12-11

In Cumbrian dialect, 'hollin' is holly

During the winter months holly is brought into the home to protect it from malevolent faeries, or allow benevolent ones to shelter therein without friction with the human hosts


art: John Anster Fitzgerald

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2022-12-11

With thanks to The Hadfield Trust we had the pleasure of commissioning local artist Ayeisha Muir to document the Cumbria Youth Summit '22 and create legacy documents. Enjoy these beautiful artefacts at our website: https://t.co/5I6vecRn1J Below are a few of our favourite designs.

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2022-12-07

'A large winged creature emerged from the ruin, they thought it was a cockatrice and fled in panic. But John Tallentire took a rowan branch, stabbed the creature through it’s heart, and killed it'.
~ the Cockatrice of Renwick

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2022-12-05

A 'hob-thross' lived in Millom Castle. He slept by the fire during the day, and worked all night, doing the chores the humans didn’t want to do. One harsh winter he was offered clothes, a terrible insult to a hob-thross, so he left!


art: Eric Edwards

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2022-12-01

In Cumbrian dialect, 'hollin' is holly. During the winter months holly is brought into the home to protect it from malevolent faeries, or allow benevolent ones to shelter therein without friction with the human hosts.

art: John Anster Fitzgerald

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2022-12-01

Eachy, from the Old English meaning water-sprite or hippopotamus, is a large being of "gruesome and slimy appearance" seen to emerge from water. Reported at Windermere in 1873 and Bassenthwaite Lake as late as 1973

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2022-11-21

The village of 'Dragley Beck', now part of Ulverston, is the birthplace of Sir John Barrow, English statesman, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society. It gets it's name from the dragon that legend says, sleeps underneath it.

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2022-11-20

A foggy day in the Eden Valley this morning 🍂

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2022-11-19