Sussex Folk Tales

Released on 2013-07-01

Sussex Folk Tales Book Details:

Author : Michael O'Leary

Publisher : The History Press

Release : 2013-07-01

ISBN-13 : 0752493965

Page : 128 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 965 voters

With screaming demons in Wealdon copses and dragons lurking in bottomless ponds, the folk tales of Sussex truly represent the diversity of the area. Meet knuckers and willocks, mawkins and marsh monsters, the Piltdown Man, Lord Moon of Amberley Swamp and the princess of the Mixon Hole. There is also something terrible crawling to Crawley from Gatwick, which develops a degraded appetite in a bin ... From ghosts and madmen to witches and wise women, Michael O’Leary reveals many of the hidden horrors of Sussex – horrors that can be found in the most beautiful places, or that lurk beneath the seemingly mundane. Amid these dark tales are stories of humour and silliness, of love, lust and passion.

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