Tales From the Otherwood
A monthly podcast exploring the folk tales and folklore of the East Midlands and beyond. Dylan Knight acts as both our guide and storyteller as we explore these stories from Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire as well as the lore and legends behind them.
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Episodes
21 episodes
The Holbeach Gamesters
It’s an old classic- three men walk into a bar and decide to give their dead friend’s corpse one last card game- oh, wait! You mean you HAVEN’T heard that one? This Lincolnshire story was based on something that really happened! Des...
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25:35
The Watercress Girl and the Witch
We're back in Nottingham! And a poor little girl is taken in by a witch.... what could possibly go wrong?This month's chat discusses East Midland folklore on cress, gooseberry bushes and apple trees; what has the apple...
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30:03
Listener Episode: The Drowning of Kenfig
Love conquers all..... or does it? How can a simple and honest thing such as love destroy a whole town in Wales?A whole episode as requested by regular listener, Nik.This month's tale involves love, murder and, of course, a cu...
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25:23
Guest Episode: The Wendigo
In this tale from the Ojibwe First Nation we encounter something that strikes fear even into the bravest of hearts.When a warrior and his family are trying to survive a harsh winter, the warrior goes in search of food but encounters ins...
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28:36
The Fairy Supper
In this Derbyshire set tale, a minister from Ashbourne makes his journey to carry on the Lord's Work despite the setbacks that have already presented themselves. Seeking shelter in a dilapidated house, the minister finds not all the r...
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34:46
Where Does It Lead?
This Northamptonshire tale is in regards of a very curious building called the Triangular Lodge. On the grounds of Rushton Hall, it is in fact, younger than the hall itself.However, this also means that because of its unusual shap...
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35:40
The Vampire of Medveða
I've always wanted to cover a vampire story..... and here it is!Set in Hungary, 1725, the villagers of Medveða are being haunted by one of their own who died a sudden death! Keeping one of the undead down is hard enough, what happ...
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32:37
Jeffrey Hudson: The Queen's Dwarf
Now 10 years old, young Jeffery is sent as part of an envoy for Queen Henrietta Maria to her home country of France.Jeffrey will learn what it is to be loved and adored and yet..... events beyond his control will teach him a stark remin...
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23:00
The Green Mist
In the depths of Lincolnshire, time was that the coming of Spring was hurried with certain rituals to the spirits of the land. People looked for the Green Mist, for only on its arrival was Winter truly over. The Green Mist is...
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27:47
The Miller of Mansfield
Yuletide greetings and cheer! Back home in Nottinghamshire, this month's tale sees King Henry II getting himself lost whilst hunting in Sherwood Forest.... until he meets a very strange individual indeed. December's cha...
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27:25
Black Dog- Shag Dog
In her home village of Birstall, Leicestershire, Katie learns to her horror that the stories surrounding the haunting of Black Lane by a black ghostly hound might not just simply be a ghost story.....The Chat section of this month...
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20:24
Guest Episode: The Dragon of Wantley
The people of Wantley in South Yorkshire have a problem. A BIG problem! There's a dragon eating everything and everyone and the local knight to protect them is a foul mouthed drunk. This is a reading of the bawdy tale ...
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28:02
The Derby Ram
WARNING! This episode contains Dylan singing and therefore contains a Government health warning...... You have been warned, therefore all side effects are your own responsibility.The Derby Ram is a favourite English folk song, but...
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19:55
The Boggart and The Farmer
In this Northamptonshire tale, a poor farmer starts working on his small plot of land only to find it is haunted by a menacing and ugly boggart.... will the farmer be driven away? Or does he have what it takes to deal with the supernatural forc...
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20:33
Prophecy of the Blue Boar
Richard III comes to Leicester to stay at the reputable White Boar Inn before going to war. Only for him to be approached by a mysterious woman with strange news indeed....This month's chat involves talking about "Cunning Folk" an...
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20:12
Holiday Special: The Traveller and the Devils
This episode was recorded and produced whilst on holiday in Madeira! So it’s only appropriate that for this episode I found a story from Madeira. This story was found online with a passage from the book ‘Madeira Folktales and Legend...
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9:45
Jeffrey Hudson: The Boy in the Pie
The year is 1626 and it's the reign of King Charles I. The Duke of Buckingham has rivalry to the left of him, jealousy to the right, and here he is: stuck in the middle with too much going on.... yet he is about to completely transform th...
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20:25
The Woodman and the Hatchet
This month sees us take a detour from the East Midlands and straight to Dylan's native Sheffield. Here we encounter the story of a very sorry woodman who not only has a lot of trees to fell in one day, but he's lost his axe! With mi...
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15:39
The Lincoln Imp
The year is 1092 and the very first Bishop of Lincoln is looking forward to seeing the cathedral completed.... only it seems to have attracted the attention on unholy eyes.Dylan tells this story of spiritual warfare, mischievous entitie...
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20:44