English folklore

King of England from 1189 to 1199 (1157–1199)

legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries

heroic outlaw in English folklore, a highly skilled archer and swordsman

Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateering ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to

Merlin () is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a prophet and a magician, along with several other main roles. The familiar depiction of Merlin, based on an amalgamation of historical and legendary figures, was introduced by the 12th-century Catholic cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth and then built on by the French poet Robert de Boron and prose successors in the 13th century. Geoffrey's account presented Merlin as a prophet and royal advisor to Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon.

fairy tale

Yule (, ) is a winter festival and time of the year historically observed by heathen Germanic peoples that was later merged with the festival of Christmas during the process of Christianisation. The oldest accounts describe two Yule-months around the winter solstice in early, and sometimes explicitly heathen, Germanic calendars.

British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)

English pirate (1682-1720)

English captain and pirate

thumb|Vortigern and Rowena by William Harvey

fairy tale

Dunstan ( – 19 May 988) was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer Osbern, himself an artist and scribe, states that Dunstan was skilled in "making a picture and forming letters", as were other clergy of his age who reached senior rank.

natural trace of the circular growth front of mushroom mycelium

water sprite from European mythology

sculpture or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves

body of Medieval literature associated with Great Britain and Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur

malicious entity in folklore

nursery rhyme from England

English folklore legendary character

Folkloric personification of Christmas in several English‐speaking parts of the world

personification of frost and cold weather

effigy into which pins are inserted

English highwayman (1705–1739)

thumb|upright=1.4|William Hogarth's engraving "[[Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington" (illustration to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)]] Charivari (, , , alternatively spelled shivaree or chivaree and also called a skimmington) was a European and North American folk custom designed to shame a member of the community, in which a mock parade was staged through the settlement accompanied by a discordant mock serenade. Since the crowd aimed to make as much noise as possible by beating on pots and pans or anything that came to hand, these parades were often referred to as rough music.

doll with a stuffed cloth body and head

person from whom, it is popularly claimed, the Luddites took their name

well where wishes are thought to be granted

mass-produced print of painting by Bruno Amadio

Old English poem from the Vercelli Book

thumb|Depiction of the Pwca in Wirt Sikes's book British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions, 1880

four times Lord Mayor of London (1354-1423)

fairy creature from European mythology

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thumbnail|right|Poppets In folk magic and witchcraft, a poppet (also known as poppit, moppet, mommet or pippy) is a doll made to represent a person, for casting spells on them, or aiding that person through magic. They are occasionally found lodged in chimneys. These dolls may be fashioned from materials such as carved root, grain, corn shafts, fruit, paper, wax, a potato, clay, branches, or cloth stuffed with herbs, with the intent that any actions performed upon the effigy will be transferred to the subject based on sympathetic magic. Poppets are also used as kitchen witch figures. thumb|Pop

giant in Welsh and English mythology

English folklore concerning the rise of Richard Whittington in 14th-century London

examples, orgins, and histories various parts of english folklore.

autostereotype of English society

traditional song

legend from North East England concerning a knight and a dragon

English language nursery rhyme

folk song

mythical churchyard-guardian spirit-animal

archetypal Cornish and English hero and stock character

British folk tale

In folklore, Fairyland or Faerie is a fabulous land inhabited by fays or fairies. It may be ruled by a Fairy Queen. In Scottish contexts, it is also known as Elfame.

dragon from the Beowulf poem

Presence of rabbits and hares in the visual arts

English giant commonly known as the Childe of Hale

British coven

folk custom in England

thumb|Wittich (in red) dishonourably battles two against one with Heime to defeat Alphart. Witege, Witige or Wittich (; Gotho-) or Vidrik "Vidga" Verlandsson ( + Viðga or Videke + Verlandsson, Vallandsson, or Villandsson) is a character in several Germanic heroic legends, poems about Dietrich von Bern, and later Scandinavian ballads.

British nursery rhyme

thumb|This woodcut (c. 1820) was used in numerous chapbooks from various publishers in the 19th century. Cormoran ( or ) is a giant associated with St. Michael's Mount in the folklore of Cornwall. Local tradition credits him with creating the island, in some versions with the aid of his wife Cormelian, and using it as a base to raid cattle from the mainland communities. Cormoran appears in the English fairy tale "Jack the Giant Killer" as the first giant slain by the hero, Jack, and in tales of "Tom the Tinkeard" as a giant too old to present a serious threat.

tradition practised in some parts of rural England in which wells, springs and other water sources are decorated with designs created from flower petals

English fairy tale

traditional song

traditional European custom

creature in Germanic mythology and folklore