Regency Folklore: Stanhope’s Spirit-ed Ship
In celebration of the season of the witch (and ghosts, ghouls, and goblins), I thought I would dig up some folklore from the Regency era Continue
In celebration of the season of the witch (and ghosts, ghouls, and goblins), I thought I would dig up some folklore from the Regency era Continue
From the Regency era to the middle Victorian years, the village of South Moreton, southeast of Oxford, was haunted by the spirit of a farmer. Continue
A popular superstition alive in the Regency era had all to do with an uneven number of dinner guests. Apparently, if the number of guests Continue
The disappearance of a British Diplomat in Germany during the Napoleonic Wars is perhaps not so mysterious to today’s reader. But imagine its November 1809, Continue