Hampshire Isle Of Wight Ghost Tales

Author : Michael O'Leary
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750963840
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampshire Isle of Wight Ghost Tales written by Michael O'Leary and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this haunting collection are as ancient and modern, powerful and fantastical, ambiguous and ambivalent as the ghosts they feature. Here you will find tales of headless horses riding moonbeams, an entrance to another world on Marrowbones Hill, drowned sailors and ghost ships, and a girl riding pillion on a motorbike driven by her dead boyfriend – all told in the distinct voice of noted storyteller Michael O’Leary who, for years, has wandered the highways and byways of Hampshire, immersed in the layers of ghost stories that have accumulated in this ancient county. Richly illustrated with original drawings, these tales are perfect for reading under the covers on dark, stormy nights.

Author : Michael O'Leary
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750963840
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ghost Tales written by Michael O'Leary and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this haunting collection are as ancient and modern, powerful and fantastical, ambiguous and ambivalent as the ghosts they feature. Here you will find tales of headless horses riding moonbeams, an entrance to another world on Marrowbones Hill, drowned sailors and ghost ships, and a girl riding pillion on a motorbike driven by her dead boyfriend – all told in the distinct voice of noted storyteller Michael O'Leary who, for years, has wandered the highways and byways of Hampshire, immersed in the layers of ghost stories that have accumulated in this ancient county. Richly illustrated with original drawings, these tales are perfect for reading under the covers on dark, stormy nights.

Author : Richard Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909914476
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampshire & the Isle of Wight Ghost Stories written by Richard Holland and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Underwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781727237153
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight written by Peter Underwood and published by . This book was released on 1983-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Underwood, an acknowledged expert and experienced investigator of haunted houses, presents a selection of hauntings throughout Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. A formidable collection of ghoulies and things that go bump in the night. This edition includes a foreword by author Alan Williams, and concludes with his interview with Underwood first published in Writers' Monthly in 1997.

Author : Peter Underwood
Publisher : Peter Underwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Hampshire & The Isle of Wight written by Peter Underwood and published by Peter Underwood. This book was released on 1983 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Underwood, an acknowledged expert and experienced investigator of haunted houses, presents a selection of hauntings throughout Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. This guide contains an evocative collection of material concerning inexplicable supernatural experiences in these regions stretching across vast swathes of time. Delve into Bramshott near Liphook, where, ’in the lush and quiet meadow beside the slow-flowing stream, Mistress Elizabeth Butler is said to have been so unhappy that she drowned herself in 1745 and her ghost walks beside the water’. Discover Ashey Down near Brading, where two local residents once ‘found themselves in the middle of the biggest mystery of their lives…’. Or find out about Arreton Manor, an early Jacobean Manor steeped in history and dates back to as early as 1872, which is said to be haunted by the ghost of Annabel…

Author : Michael O'Leary
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752477544
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampshire and Isle of Wight Folk Tales written by Michael O'Leary and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These beautifully told folk tales, brought vividly to life by Marcel O'Leary's graphic illustrations, have been collected by the author over his years of working as a greenkeeper, gardener, teacher and storyteller in Hampshire. Many are published here for the first time, and others have evolved through countless retellings in Hampshire schools, festivals, fêtes and events. Featuring dark tales of murderous kings and commoners, wild women, screaming skulls, galloping plague coaches, dragons dancing themselves to death, giants, and wandering corpses, combined with humorous stories and evocative tales of love, lust and passion, this book takes the reader beyond the written page and reveals the wonders that lie within the Hampshire landscape.

Author : Michael O'Leary
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493965
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sussex Folk Tales written by Michael O'Leary and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With screaming demons in Wealdon copses and dragons lurking in bottomless ponds, the folk tales of Sussex truly represent the diversity of the area. Meet knuckers and willocks, mawkins and marsh monsters, the Piltdown Man, Lord Moon of Amberley Swamp and the princess of the Mixon Hole. There is also something terrible crawling to Crawley from Gatwick, which develops a degraded appetite in a bin... From ghosts and madmen to witches and wise women, Michael O'Leary reveals many of the hidden horrors of Sussex – horrors that can be found in the most beautiful places, or that lurk beneath the seemingly mundane. Amid these dark tales are stories of humour and silliness, of love, lust and passion.

Author : Christine Willison
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750988584
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Storytelling written by Christine Willison and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do stories come from, and how do we come to know them? Daughters listen with wonder to their grandmothers' tales. Journalists have their trusted sources. Writers of storybooks draw unconsciously from the works of their predecessors. It is as if every story has within it an infallible truth, contained in the echo of its original telling. The storyteller recounts the tale. The listener hears, learns and remembers. In due course they will retell the same tale, adding in something of their own. And so listeners in time turn into storytellers. This inspiring book brings together the stories from across the world of listeners who themselves became storytellers. They reveal who influenced them the most, what drew them further in, what they learnt, and what they now wish to share with new generations. Tips, tools and tales: read this book, and take your turn.

Author : Charles J Esdaile
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399037501
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Civil War written by Charles J Esdaile and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tales are in reality folk memories of an episode of English history that was second only to the Black Death in terms of individual and collective suffering alike, and, further, that they reveal important truths about the way in which the conflict was represented: it is no surprise, then, to find that spectral Cavaliers are often romantic figures and revenant Roundheads grim ones full of menace. Yet, the book is no mere catalogue. On the contrary, rather than being discussed in a vacuum, the tales of haunting are rather set within a detailed regional history of the conflicts of 1642-1651 of a sort that has never yet been attempted, but is, for all that, badly needed.

Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.IY/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ... With Maps and Plans written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: