Suffolk Folk Tales

About this book

Kirsty Hartsiotis retells thirty traditional stories from Suffolk, bringing together legends of the county’s coast, marshes, Breckland, villages and towns. The collection includes the Green Children of Woolpit, the secret behind Black Shuck, Suffolk’s last dragon and the story of the Orwell Mermaid.

Alongside fairy folk, wildmen, ghosts and tricksters, the book features tales of King Edmund, King Raedwald, Friar Bungay, Suffolk’s cunning folk and haunted airfields. Stories such as ‘Cap’ o’ Rushes’, ‘The Bells of Minsmere’ and ‘The Murder in the Red Barn’ sit beside accounts of saints, wizards, sea creatures and local legends. An introduction, map and bibliography place the tales within Suffolk’s landscape and storytelling traditions.