Sussex Folk Tales
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 storie…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7524-9396-1
- EAN: 9780752493961
- Produktnummer: 15193660
- Verlag: The History Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'227 KB
Über den Autor
Professional storyteller Michael O'Leary worked as a greenkeeper in the Meon Valley before moving to Southampton as a gardener. He gained a degree in geography from Southampton University and later became a teacher, before becoming a full-time storyteller in 1994, spending the last twenty years travelling throughout Britain and Ireland and visiting schools and libraries, and storytelling festivals.
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