Eli Lewis-Lycett Folklore and History
@elilewislycett.bsky.social
Folklorist, history writer and podcaster: The Local Mythstorian / Tales From Antiquaria / Cheshire Life Magazine / Haunted Magazine / Inspectre Paranormal.
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The natural wonder of countryside where I live always inspires my thoughts to folklore and history, and every season it points me in a different direction. It’s a magical place, it really is. #valeroyal #cheshire #davenham #moulton
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The natural wonder of countryside where I live always inspires my thoughts to folklore and history, and every season it points me in a different direction. It’s a magical place, it really is. #valeroyal #cheshire #davenham #moulton
Few pics from Jenkin Chapel and Erwin Lane this morning - still one of the most enthralling mysteries of local history in the peak borders of Cheshire for me. Wrote a piece on it a few years ago: thelocalmythstorian.com/death-of-the...
#johnturner #jagger #jenkinchapel
#johnturner #jagger #jenkinchapel
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Few pics from Jenkin Chapel and Erwin Lane this morning - still one of the most enthralling mysteries of local history in the peak borders of Cheshire for me. Wrote a piece on it a few years ago: thelocalmythstorian.com/death-of-the...
#johnturner #jagger #jenkinchapel
#johnturner #jagger #jenkinchapel
Happy Halloween Guys! The latest episode of Tales From Antiquaria is out today, featuring the 1890 collection 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore'. There's sea-spirits, sand-claimed churches and a whole swathe of spooky Cornish ghost-lore! On all providers and at talesfromantiquaria.com/episodes #folklore
October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Happy Halloween Guys! The latest episode of Tales From Antiquaria is out today, featuring the 1890 collection 'Cornish Feasts and Folklore'. There's sea-spirits, sand-claimed churches and a whole swathe of spooky Cornish ghost-lore! On all providers and at talesfromantiquaria.com/episodes #folklore
Really happy to let folks know I’m being featured on the BBC across the next few days!
6PM Tonight BBC Hereford & Worcester
6PM Tonight BBC Shropshire
6PM Saturday BBC Stoke
6PM Saturday BBC West Midlands
6PM Saturday BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
#BBCRADIO #FOLKLORE #BBCSOUNDS
6PM Tonight BBC Hereford & Worcester
6PM Tonight BBC Shropshire
6PM Saturday BBC Stoke
6PM Saturday BBC West Midlands
6PM Saturday BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
#BBCRADIO #FOLKLORE #BBCSOUNDS
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Really happy to let folks know I’m being featured on the BBC across the next few days!
6PM Tonight BBC Hereford & Worcester
6PM Tonight BBC Shropshire
6PM Saturday BBC Stoke
6PM Saturday BBC West Midlands
6PM Saturday BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
#BBCRADIO #FOLKLORE #BBCSOUNDS
6PM Tonight BBC Hereford & Worcester
6PM Tonight BBC Shropshire
6PM Saturday BBC Stoke
6PM Saturday BBC West Midlands
6PM Saturday BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
#BBCRADIO #FOLKLORE #BBCSOUNDS
The headless horseman of the moors was featured in Ep 1 of Tales From Antiquaria - this image was sent to me a while back; locals out 'hunting' the horseman back in May 1933!
If you've not heard it yet, it's on all platforms and the website too: talesfromantiquaria.com
Ep 2 out on Friday!
If you've not heard it yet, it's on all platforms and the website too: talesfromantiquaria.com
Ep 2 out on Friday!
October 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The headless horseman of the moors was featured in Ep 1 of Tales From Antiquaria - this image was sent to me a while back; locals out 'hunting' the horseman back in May 1933!
If you've not heard it yet, it's on all platforms and the website too: talesfromantiquaria.com
Ep 2 out on Friday!
If you've not heard it yet, it's on all platforms and the website too: talesfromantiquaria.com
Ep 2 out on Friday!
Hi all! It's almost time for the launch of my new podcast Tales From Antiquaria. If you get chance, please pop over to the new BlueSky page for the project and follow - its where all the news will be posted once it starts. Thanks folks! The link is here: bsky.app/profile/anti...
October 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hi all! It's almost time for the launch of my new podcast Tales From Antiquaria. If you get chance, please pop over to the new BlueSky page for the project and follow - its where all the news will be posted once it starts. Thanks folks! The link is here: bsky.app/profile/anti...
Hi all! Just to let folks know my new project, Tales From Antiquaria, a podcast dedicated to the legacy of folklore writing published during the 1800s, is set to launch! So should you receive a follow etc from antiquariapodcast, its me! Really looking forward to getting this out there! Best, Eli.
September 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Hi all! Just to let folks know my new project, Tales From Antiquaria, a podcast dedicated to the legacy of folklore writing published during the 1800s, is set to launch! So should you receive a follow etc from antiquariapodcast, its me! Really looking forward to getting this out there! Best, Eli.
Very proud to learn that @inspectrepodcast.bsky.social has been nominated for the Independent Podcast Awards 2025 down in that there London!
September 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Very proud to learn that @inspectrepodcast.bsky.social has been nominated for the Independent Podcast Awards 2025 down in that there London!
Had cause to spend a bit of time around Stoke recently and grabbed some photos to refresh the website. The famed 'Templar' graves at St. Lawrences in Biddulph, and of course, the table tomb of Molly Leigh. Never noticed that medieval coffin at St. John's before - believe it came from Hulton Abbey.
July 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Had cause to spend a bit of time around Stoke recently and grabbed some photos to refresh the website. The famed 'Templar' graves at St. Lawrences in Biddulph, and of course, the table tomb of Molly Leigh. Never noticed that medieval coffin at St. John's before - believe it came from Hulton Abbey.
Not a historical post, but thought a few folks might appreciate it: a sun halo I caught on camera on my holiday break. No wonder the ancients were so enchanted with natural phenomena!
June 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Not a historical post, but thought a few folks might appreciate it: a sun halo I caught on camera on my holiday break. No wonder the ancients were so enchanted with natural phenomena!
As a history nerd, to find this chap being my direct ancestor has been a real trip! Looks like my Staffordshire roots are truly inbedded!
June 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As a history nerd, to find this chap being my direct ancestor has been a real trip! Looks like my Staffordshire roots are truly inbedded!
Great sights walking Chester walls this morning; makes a nice change to see an English Civil War history being respected and promoted! #chester #civilwar #chesterwalls
June 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Great sights walking Chester walls this morning; makes a nice change to see an English Civil War history being respected and promoted! #chester #civilwar #chesterwalls
Continuing the recent witchy theme - I cover the history behind the tale of the Bakewell Witches in the new issue of Haunted Magazine. Available across the UK and US from May 30th! www.haunteddigitalmagazine.com/2025/05/haun...
May 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Continuing the recent witchy theme - I cover the history behind the tale of the Bakewell Witches in the new issue of Haunted Magazine. Available across the UK and US from May 30th! www.haunteddigitalmagazine.com/2025/05/haun...
Morning folks! Got this out much quicker than I thought I would - It will be the final episode of the podcast series, as I really need to get stuck into a new project: The History of Witchcraft In Cheshire, Live from The Grange Theatre: thelocalmythstorian.com/podcast #WITCHES #THELOCALMYTHSTORIAN
May 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Morning folks! Got this out much quicker than I thought I would - It will be the final episode of the podcast series, as I really need to get stuck into a new project: The History of Witchcraft In Cheshire, Live from The Grange Theatre: thelocalmythstorian.com/podcast #WITCHES #THELOCALMYTHSTORIAN
Great night at The Grange Theatre last night, so good to see so many people turn out for the witches! Podcast ETA is mid-tune. And thanks to Northwich & District Heritage Society for inviting me over. I've now sold out of books too! Better re-stock! #witchcraft #Cheshire #thelocalmythstorian
May 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Great night at The Grange Theatre last night, so good to see so many people turn out for the witches! Podcast ETA is mid-tune. And thanks to Northwich & District Heritage Society for inviting me over. I've now sold out of books too! Better re-stock! #witchcraft #Cheshire #thelocalmythstorian
Just over a week until we go full on witchy at The Grange Theatre! Talk at 8pm - from the Roman roots of the 'witch' stereotype to the Cheshire trials, with all manner of devils, imps & magical motives. Mythstoric Journeys hardback just £10 on the night! #grangetheatre #cheshirehistory #witchcraze
May 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Just over a week until we go full on witchy at The Grange Theatre! Talk at 8pm - from the Roman roots of the 'witch' stereotype to the Cheshire trials, with all manner of devils, imps & magical motives. Mythstoric Journeys hardback just £10 on the night! #grangetheatre #cheshirehistory #witchcraze
Absolute find whilst walking the streets of Knutsford today!
May 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Absolute find whilst walking the streets of Knutsford today!
VE DAY SPECIAL - ahead of next weeks 80th anniversary, I am releasing my grandfathers memoir in PDF. A Sgt in the Royal Engineers I had long assumed the document lost following his passing 20 years ago, but found it earlier this year! You can download it here: thelocalmythstorian.com/albert-s-war
May 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
VE DAY SPECIAL - ahead of next weeks 80th anniversary, I am releasing my grandfathers memoir in PDF. A Sgt in the Royal Engineers I had long assumed the document lost following his passing 20 years ago, but found it earlier this year! You can download it here: thelocalmythstorian.com/albert-s-war
The Saxon crosses of Sandbach fuse pagan and Christian symbols in stone. Nearly lost to Civil War zealotry, they were restored in 1816. A timeless reminder: cultures can clash, yet still create something enduring and beautiful! #sandbach #anglosaxon #celticchristianity
April 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Saxon crosses of Sandbach fuse pagan and Christian symbols in stone. Nearly lost to Civil War zealotry, they were restored in 1816. A timeless reminder: cultures can clash, yet still create something enduring and beautiful! #sandbach #anglosaxon #celticchristianity
Hugh Raven led the infamous Meg Lane Farm Gang across 18C Cheshire. As Macclesfield's industrial boom reshaped the land, he turned to highway robbery striking fear across the countryside. Charismatic, ruthless, and cunning, he evaded capture until, legend says, he met a bloody end near Buxton.
April 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Hugh Raven led the infamous Meg Lane Farm Gang across 18C Cheshire. As Macclesfield's industrial boom reshaped the land, he turned to highway robbery striking fear across the countryside. Charismatic, ruthless, and cunning, he evaded capture until, legend says, he met a bloody end near Buxton.
Chester’s amphitheatre, the largest in Roman Britain, once echoed with chants for Mirex, a local gladiator whose name reached Rome itself. Artefacts from Ostia featuring his image label him 'Champion of Deva' - the Roman name for Chester. Maybe Mirex was Cheshire's earliest sports star?
April 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Chester’s amphitheatre, the largest in Roman Britain, once echoed with chants for Mirex, a local gladiator whose name reached Rome itself. Artefacts from Ostia featuring his image label him 'Champion of Deva' - the Roman name for Chester. Maybe Mirex was Cheshire's earliest sports star?
Happy Saint George's Day! One of those fantastically confused historical reassignments. Synonymous with English pride, he was actually a Roman soldier born in modern-day Turkey in the 3rd century. A devout Christian, he refused to renounce his faith and was executed around 303 AD. #saintgeorge
April 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Happy Saint George's Day! One of those fantastically confused historical reassignments. Synonymous with English pride, he was actually a Roman soldier born in modern-day Turkey in the 3rd century. A devout Christian, he refused to renounce his faith and was executed around 303 AD. #saintgeorge
SCHOLAR OF MAGIC - the latest in the podcast re-run, and one that got a bit missed first time around because of some crazy timings. It's still one of my favourites. Thought I'd pop a link up here in case you never heard it last year.
#chestercathedral #ranulfhigden
thelocalmythstorian.com/podcast
#chestercathedral #ranulfhigden
thelocalmythstorian.com/podcast
April 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
SCHOLAR OF MAGIC - the latest in the podcast re-run, and one that got a bit missed first time around because of some crazy timings. It's still one of my favourites. Thought I'd pop a link up here in case you never heard it last year.
#chestercathedral #ranulfhigden
thelocalmythstorian.com/podcast
#chestercathedral #ranulfhigden
thelocalmythstorian.com/podcast
After the Harrying of the North (1069), Hugh d'Avranches founded the Barony of Shipbrook in Cheshire. Ralph de Vernon, 7th Baron, survived plague, reshaped the family crest, and reportedly lived to 150 - earning the nickname “The Long Liver.” Legend or truth, it was a life for the ages!
April 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
After the Harrying of the North (1069), Hugh d'Avranches founded the Barony of Shipbrook in Cheshire. Ralph de Vernon, 7th Baron, survived plague, reshaped the family crest, and reportedly lived to 150 - earning the nickname “The Long Liver.” Legend or truth, it was a life for the ages!
I take it all back about AI - this has blown my mind!!! Only joking, I find AI quite a scary concept overall. But it’s not half a laugh for this kind of stuff!
April 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I take it all back about AI - this has blown my mind!!! Only joking, I find AI quite a scary concept overall. But it’s not half a laugh for this kind of stuff!