25 Creatures in English Folklore and Myth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

What creatures and ghouls can be found in England's folklore and mythology? Black Dogs, Ghosts, Goblins, Faeries, Sprites and Big Cats lurk in our forests, marshes and hills and lakes. This list of 25 creatures will give you a good overview of what the English people believed and in many cases still believe regarding our folklore.

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Recorded January 2023, with clips from Yorkshire, Northumberland and Suffolk filmed in 2022 and 2021.

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Music used:
DRAGONS by Vivek Abhishek
Dark Ambient Background Music - Haunted by CO.AG Music
The End is Always Near by Myuu
Phantasm by Kevin Macleod
Road to Hell by Kevin Macleod
Tenebrous Brothers Carnival by Kevin Macleod
Relent by Kevin Macleod
Celtic Impulse by Kevin Macleod
Other songs composed by Albert Schofield for the Jolly Reiver project.

List of Creatures:
1) Will-O-The-Wisp
2) The Barghest
3) Redcaps
4) Hairy Hands
5) Black Annis
6) The White Lady
7) Apple Tree Man
8) Boggarts
9) Knockers
10) The Gytrash
11) Spring Heeled Jack
12) The Brown Man of the Muirs
13) Mermaids
14) Grindylow
15) Bluecaps
16) Herne the Hunter
17) Vampires
18) The Lambton Worm
19) Hobs
20) Dwarves
21) Knuckers
22) Giants
23) Green Children of Woolpit
24) Black Shuck
25) Beast of Bodmin Moor

The Jolly Reiver is my project aiming to preserve and promote the forgotten folklore and history of rural Britain. Primarily focusing on folklore and legends, you’ll not find me trying to deconstruct these old stories or trying to rationalise them with science and psychology. Instead I will present them as they were always told by our forebears, and leave the conclusions up to you. Videos are filmed on location to show you exactly where these stories took place.