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The Deerness Mermaid: Our Best Attested Nineteenth-Century Cryptid

Are Mermaids Fairies?

Early Modern Fairy Sex Spell

Karl Banse: The Man Who Made the Case for Mermaids

Victorian Urban Legends: Fine Art

Headingley Monster

The Wood Diva

The Dancing Fairies of Sennen Cove:

The Modern Western Ghost and Its Zombie Origins

Horse Spirits: Colt-Pixy or Pixy-Colt?

The When of Levitation in the West

The Fairy Census: End Game

Immortals and Itinerants

Devil at the Wedding (Ritual)

The Voodoo Soldiers of Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh

Zombies and Shapechangers in Medieval Yorkshire