England · Wales · Scotland
The dark mythology
of these islands
Long before the church came to these shores, the land already had its gods. In the hollow hills and the sunken fens, in the lanes that run out of names on old maps, something older than memory still moves. AlbionBlack is where it gets recorded.
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Legend · East Anglia
Black Shuck
On the morning of 4 August 1577, a black dog was reported in two Suffolk churches during the same storm. People died. The scorch marks on the north door at Blythburgh are still there, though what made them has never been settled.
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Legend · Hampshire
The Tichborne Dole
A dying woman asked her husband for a field. He gave her as much land as she could crawl around by torchlight. She crawled twenty-three acres, and cursed his descendants if they ever let the dole lapse. They did. The curse came.
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Folklore · Lancashire
Jenny Greenteeth
In the ponds and rivers of Lancashire, something waits beneath the duckweed. She has green skin, long hair, and sharp teeth. She is very patient.
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Folklore · County Durham
The Cauld Lad of Hylton
At Hylton Castle, a ghost made mischief in the kitchens every night. The servants left him a gift to be rid of him. He was gone by morning, and something was lost with his leaving.
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"England keeps its darkness quietly, in place names and parish records and the half-remembered warnings that parents pass on without quite knowing why. AlbionBlack is an attempt to go looking for it."
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