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A BOOK OF SUSSEX WITCH LEGENDS Some villages have witch legends – but most do not. In East Sussex, there are at least 13 places which have them, and in West Sussex nearly 50. Some of these are fairly typical of the kinds of witch legends found all over Britain, such as that of Old Mother Venus of Laughton, who was said to become a hare, or Jenny Saker of Goring who changed into a big black dog, and Dame Prettylegs of Albourne who was reputed to immobilize wagons and teams, or Witch Killick of Crowborough who ill-wished a neighbour to fall sick; and then there are some which are not so common, such as one about Mrs. Kitchener of Loxwood who sat on a hurdle and rode it like a horse; and of the landlord of The Fox Inn, at Fox Hill, who was shot in the legs when he was a hare, and Nanny Smart of Hurstpierpoint who, old though she was, could not die until she had passed her witchcraft secrets to someone else; or Butter Ede of Petworth who always had a big black cat with her, and Old Martha of Plumpton who ran backwards brandishing long knives; or Dame Garson of Duddleswell, who was chased by hounds when she was a hare, and leapt in through the window of her cottage, calling: “Ah, my boys, you ain’t got me yet!”
Paperback 210 X 148mm 276 pages
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The Crew that Never Rests Most books about the fairy lore of Britain tend to focus on the Celtic parts of the country, but The Crew that Never Rests is mainly about the local legends and tales of the fairies as recorded in the counties of England. It features over thirty sections covering such subjects as fairy rings, captured fairies, church siting legends, fairy funerals, changelings, mines and caves, fairy children, hobs and robgoblins, equine fairies, Midsummer’s Eve, fairy treasure, ‘The Sweating Fairies’ and ‘The Broken Peel’ etc. and the book includes over 200 complete legends and tales about the Little People – of Cornish piskys, West Country pixies, Suffolk frairies, pharisees in Sussex and Hertfordshire, the faries and brownies of northern counties, and other English fairy folk, as well as the Tylwyth Teg of Wales, and ‘the people of peace’ of Scotland, the Gentry of the Irish, and of the lutins in France, Germanic elves, and the trolls, tomtes, and elle-folk of Scandinavia. The book contains vintage illustrations, including colour plates. And there is also a little extra item tucked away at the back: “We’ll drink and dance like pharisees!” A Garland of Sussex Fairy Lore.
Paperback 148mm x 210mm 218 pages
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THE GODDESS: A DEMON A Victorian gothic horror novel first published in 1900.
Paperback 198 x 129mm 256 pages
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THE SHINING CORD OF SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Sheila Kaye-Smith was a Sussex writer. She wrote more than 30 novels, most of them set in that county, and some in Kent, and she also wrote short stories, poetry, articles, and non-fiction books. One of her most popular novels was made into a film. This new biography about her contains a lot of original research, as well as excerpts from book reviews, articles, interviews, and other sources. Highlights will undoubtedly be the quotes from and plot descriptions of two unfinished novels; details about some of her lesser known stories, as well as the sections about Baa, Trimmer and Pearl, Platnix, The Lodge, Old Gadgett, City Red, The Fairy Housemaid, The Little Flower, the gleams, and, of course, the Shining Cord.
Paperback 210 x 148mm 214 pages
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