‘Besides the many old houses that are haunted, there are several endowed with the simple credit of having been the scenes of murders and suicides. Some contain rooms which had particular names commemorative of such events ...' Robert Chambers, Traditions of Edinburgh, 1824.

Our next meeting is at 6pm, 24th March. The theme of the meeting is 'Wetlands (Fens, estuaries, bogs etc)'. Everyone is free to give a five minute presentation on the theme!

Please contact Frank for further details: [email protected]

A splendid house with splendid domestics...

Fleas getting married and having wakes...

Cute jackals in a pioneering collection with the 'oral tradition' from a single storyteller, Anna de Souza.

Now that I compare, I think you have a point...

Why is the dotteral foolish and the owl wise

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/witc...

'A nest of serpents instead of brains...'

There is a good deal of such Scottish salt lore

Better than the usual version.