Yorkshire Dragons, Giants, and other Folk Tales.

Fiction & Literature

• Author: Andrew Walsh
• ISBN: 9781911500063
• Publisher: Innovative Libraries
• Publication: October 2, 2017
• Imprint: Innovative Libraries
• Language: English

A collection of twenty folk or fairy tales from across Yorkshire. Including stories of dragons, giants, and other legendary happenings.

Most are traditional stories, but a few are new stories based on scraps of traditional legends of the Huddersfield area.

The stories are:

• Billy Biter and Filey Brigg
• The Building of the Kirk at Heaton
• The Crafty Ploughboy, or Yorkshire Bite
• The Donkey, the Table, and the Stick  
• The Dragon of Loschy Wood
• The Dragon of Wantley
• The Drummer boy of Richmond
• The Farndale Hob
• The Giant of Dalton Mill
• The Giant of Sessay    
• The Golden Cradle and Castle Hill  
• The Legend of Semerwater    
• The Marsden Cuckoo 
• The Miserly Judge or ‘He had paid for it’
• Potter Thompson       
• The Serpent of Handale
• The Seven Sisters & Their Bad Neighbour 
• Upsall and its Crocks of Gold    
• Wadda of Mulgrave, and Bell, his wife 
• The Wicked Giant of Penhill