A collection of twenty folk or fairy tales from across Yorkshire. Including stories of dragons, giants, and other legendary happenings.
Most are traditional stories, but a few are new stories based on scraps of traditional legends of the Huddersfield area.
The stories are:
Billy Biter and Filey Brigg
The Building of the Kirk at Heaton
The Crafty Ploughboy, or Yorkshire Bite
The Donkey, the Table, and the Stick
The Dragon of Loschy Wood
The Dragon of Wantley
The Drummer boy of Richmond
The Farndale Hob
The Giant of Dalton Mill
The Giant of Sessay
The Golden Cradle and Castle Hill
The Legend of Semerwater
The Marsden Cuckoo
The Miserly Judge or ‘He had paid for it’
Potter Thompson
The Serpent of Handale
The Seven Sisters & Their Bad Neighbour
Upsall and its Crocks of Gold
Wadda of Mulgrave, and Bell, his wife
The Wicked Giant of Penhill
