12 Figures in Staffordshire Folklore and Legend
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2024
- In this video, we take a look at 12 figures and creatures that are found in the folklore of the English county of Staffordshire. From a headless horseman to a ghoulish witch, this video is a grand introduction to the culture and legends of the area.
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The Jolly Reiver is my project aiming to preserve and promote the forgotten folklore and history of rural Britain. Primarily focusing on folklore and legends, you’ll not find me trying to deconstruct these old stories or trying to rationalise them with science and psychology. Instead I will present them as they were always told by our forebears, and leave the conclusions up to you. 
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A Fantastic video!! I'm really proud to have worked on this and enjoyed getting a chance to share these stories from my home county with a different audience. This is a great start to a much needed series examining the stories from every corner of Britain! Thank you @TheJollyReiver for giving me an opportunity to be a part of it!
Really enjoyed this. Fascinating listening to these tales of old.
There's something very authentic about these stories which holds your attention better than made up TV nonsense. Keep up the good work.
really enjoyed this fantastic tales of old love listen to folklore stories and love folklore and mythology great work
Good work dude!
@@osakarose5612 Thank you very much!
My neck of the woods!
:-)
I’ve walked around the ruins of Harbottle castle and also trecked up to the Drake Stone while in the area a month or so back. Fantastic spot.
There are so many hidden gems scattered around the Scottish/English borders like in this video. We are so lucky to have what’s around us and your videos just remind me every time. Thanks for the fantastic work.
Thanks mate, glad you’re enjoying!
I like the phantom bunny 🐇 9:00
If you like phantom bunnies watch the movie "Harvey" (1950) with Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hull. She won an Oscar for it, the original play won a Pulitzer prize.
A headless horseman! Awesome!
Not so good if you happened to meet him but still - the thought of one roaming around out there is a real thrill!
Yes I love HH stories
Fantastic video guys... truly love this stuff..
Glad to hear it mate
Thank you Woodlander.
i originally came from Staffordshire, i now live in New Zealand. Both my grandfathers and an uncle were coal miners Thank you so much for showing these stories, some of which i knew
I'm not from England but these tales are great all the same!
Thank you :-)
Quality work as ever, and a great collaboration.
Thank you!
Thank you very much!
Beauty
❤ so great to see the notification of o new video and extra bonus of your co presenter😮😮 brilliantly done boys 🎉
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you very much!
Excellent work, chaps!
😄
Subscribe here to Staffs:
youtube.com/@StaffordshireFolklore
Already have 👍
I live down the road from Chillington and im suprised about the story as i had no idea. i walk the dog in the woods all the time.
You need to watch out. People who work at the hall have told me they're spotted the spectral form of the panther about from time to time, usually near the old ice house.
A wonderful collaboration, great stories. Thanks to everyone involved! 🌟👍
It's great to see two of my favourite creators collaborating together! My favourite story was the knockers, I've only ever heard stories of them elsewhere before.
Glad you enjoyed! And yes I was surprised to see them in Staffordshire too!
GREAT collaboration, gents!! I really enjoyed it!! 💗👍❤
Thanks for watching!
@@TheJollyReiver I love finding out about different local legends!!
It’s lovely to some some local folklore. The chillington family still own some parts of my village (I enquired to local farmers why they were blocked off). A curious family if I say so. Thanks so much for this, lads! My mum grew up in Bilston and her mum (a very skeptical women) said till the day she died a spirit got into bed with her one night when they lived in a church yard. Maybe the fairies mentioned in the video?
fantastic video great as always and great quality can't wait for more great folklore and stories
:-)
Love the channel mate I live in County Durham and it’s pleasing content mate sound around my age 23 I’m happy your actually finding a good source of enjoyment as well as blessing others keep it up mate.
Lovely collab! Enjoyed very much so, looking forward to more of these! :)
Hey hey good evening ive subscribed as i love this kind of thing I'm from Leicestershire we have many haunted places and stories like black Annis as i seen earlier in another one of your video's i was really happy you mentioned her my grandad once told me about her sitting in a tree and jumping down on unsuspecting children and running on all four's though field's catching rabbit's he even told me about the knocker's which i haven't heard about in along time,thankyou 👻😊💜
I’m glad you enjoyed and thanks for sharing!
Nice folklore guys👍🏻God bless our septic isle😂🏴❤️🏴❤️
New to the channel and really enjoying the content. Love learning about the UKs rich history. Good work dude!
Thanks for joining! I’m glad you’re enjoying mate!
Cheers from Staffordshire❤
Brilliant selection of stories, great collaboration 🍻
Cheers man!
Amazing as usual, with added power 👍
💪🏻
I really love these types of videos! Please keep ‘em coming ❤
I will do!
Excellent stories and a wonderful collaboration!
Great video mate, your mate made them terrifying.
Can you do one on Cheshire Folklore at some point please mate?, it’s hard to find any videos on.
Might be a couple of months before I do one of these again fella, but since you asked, I’ll be sure to do Cheshire as the next one.
Nice to see my local county has some rich folklore keep up the good work, if your interested I have some interesting folk lore about the First World War
As a Staffycher mon born and bred, I loved this video. Some of the tales, obviously, I knew already, but others are new to me. One small quibble regards the 'hand of glory', which differes from what that term usually means. A dead man's hand, yes, but with wicks of wax and animal fur on each finger. Prepared with various spells and curses, it was believed to aid burglars; they'd recite a spell having lit the wicks and it was believed to put the occupants of the house being burgled into a trance. As for Billie Howe, there's an owd story as sum on 'is mates were gooin' past 'im on the gibbet one night, an' one on 'em called ahrt, askin' 'ow he bist (he was). To which 'e replied, "Cowd an' clammy, yer dom fool, cowd an' clammy. Wodjer think ah'd be?" (Forgive the temptation to lapse into local dialect. )
Can you recommend a good book on The folklore of Robin Hood?
I watched your video and want to read further
Great stuff throughout. I just dropped by to say those reiver families you told us about; it's like reading the Northern Ireland telephone directory.😋
Great video, some I absolutely had no idea about 😊
Thank you :-)
Excellent video
Thank you :-)
Jacko! 🤝🏼
@@durhamfox5271 Eyup brother 👍🏻 hope you're well mate 🙏🏻
@@jacksonfrenchii8080
Struggling with this mad world a bit mate, but apart from that I’m ok thanks. Hope you and yours are good too 👍🏼
@@durhamfox5271 Cheers pal.
Pretty much the same myself really mate.
It's tough at the minute, but F em. So are we. 🤝🏻🙏🏻
Thank you.
Great vid but I feel so sad for those beautiful animals.
I didn't expect to find a video of folklore from the county I come from! Thank you, this was so interesting!
Glad you enjoyed!
Hi Jolly Reiver and Staffordshire Folklore GREAT videos and collaborations that you've done thanks for them. And have just subscribed to your channel Staffordshire Folklore 😊👍
Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed them.
@@StaffordshireFolklore 😊👍
Lichfield lore is a brilliant history blog.
She has an excellent resource yes, I hope to have her on my channel when she launches her new book.
I prefer your voice not the new one, it somehow detracts
I'm listening to as many of your videos as I can find...I love everything about them, the atmosphere, the Stories!
You Are A Storyteller I can hear it, it's in your Voice, it's in the Way you speak.... your abilities are considerable!
I Look forward to Hearing many more Tales with your voice telling them❤
To be fair I think Staffs’ audio isn’t too great atm but he’s working to fix that. Thank you for your kind words :-)
The Bilston fairies 🤣🤣🤣 I’m from Bilston, I’m laughing so much 🤣🤣 I loved this video
I love this channel. I discovered it by accident after watching Bizarre Bub's Scary Comp. late at night.
Thanks mate!
Video deserves a like just for pronouncing Onecote properly.
Could you do a video about the Folklore of Gloucestershire or Shropshire?
excellent!!!!!!!!!!
:-)
Great video 😊
Thank you :-)
Thank you for this
There's a whole book series from History Press. Each book features an English, Welsh or Irish county or a region of Scotland. I highly recommend them.
Really enjoyed that! Good work guys.
If you need any hints for an episode about Somerset's folklore and legend, give me a shout!
Will do fella!
Please do Yorkshire in the future, loved the video
Spooky sagas
:-)
I didn't know about the fairy's in Bilston i live in Bilston and I'm proud to be a yam yam .
Absolutely brilliant! Do East Anglia! :)
Subbed!! Regards from the Black Country!! 🙋🏻
Welcome mate, thanks for subscribing, if there's ever a particular story you'd like to hear let me know!
@@StaffordshireFolklore Nice one!!My Mom's from Calmore I always heard the tales of the haunted White Hart so was glad to stumble on your video and channel keep up the good work!!
I recently headed over Cannock chase to find Dick Slees cave not sure if you've heard the story of him... I found it an interesting little tale might be worth a bit of research. ✌️
@@toadstoolze I've been planning a video on Mr Slee and his poor old rabbit for a while actually! I'll make sure to move it up the schedule know I know there's someone waiting for it 😁
@@StaffordshireFolklore Bostin!!... I will look forward to that!! 👍
Great.
Can you recommend the book on sea folklore which you said will make a dedicated video later?
The best book of sea folklore I can record d is The Fabled Coast by Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood
@@TheJollyReiver thanks.
Your videos are great!
Can you do a video on the folklore of Yorkshire?
On the wall in Bamburgh castle is a token. It is described as from Taffordshire. Capital T.
I’m so scared!
I really connect to your channel as I did Duke of Avalon ... no offence intended but your gentle tones & accent talk me to sleep regularly 😊
Glad to help out aha
Please do Lancashire
Poor Molly’s bird. I hate those people!
WHO is the headless horseman and has he been seen this century
6:06 She just wants to talk to you about your carriage's extended warranty
What is a knocker?
A spirit that lives in the mines, usually in the south west, that does line work but can also become enraged and collapse the mine.
Stoke is a blooming zoo
I hope Molly was just being a troll to everyone because they sound like they were not very nice to her
3:28 Thats not what fairies look like. This is a "real" fair folk en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann#/media/File%3A%22The_Riders_of_the_Sidhe%22_John_Duncan_1911_McManus_Galleries%2C_Dundee.jpg