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Identifier: folkloreofeastyo00nich (find matches)
Title: Folk lore of East Yorkshire
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicholson, John
Subjects: Folklore -- England Yorkshire Yorkshire (England) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he said he could nottell what it was, but he thought it would make a good organfor the chuich, and accordingly it was carried there. The dangerous ridge of rocks known as Filey Brig wasbuilt by the devil, Avho, in building lost his hammer. Plunginginto the sea after it, he grasped a fish in his sooty fingers,and exclaimed Ah! Dick! The fish has been namedhaddock ever since, and still retains the mark of the satanicgrasp acioss its shoulders.* On Hornsea gibbet there last hung the body of a notorioussmuggler named Fennel, who murdered his captain, ami sankthe vessel near Hornsea, where he and his companions inci-ime landed. Through quarrelling, while drunk, their crimewas discovered, and they were arrested. Fennel was triedat York, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on Horn-sea Gibbet. Here his body hung in chains, fully dressed,even to the buckles on his shoes, until someone, more venture-some than the rest, stole the buckles and the best part of the clothing. * See Appendix A.
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FOLK LORE OF EAST YORKSHIRE. 65 On Cliff Lane, Bempton, are seven or eight large whinstoneboulders, and the old people say the stones were washed upover the cliiF by the sea. At one time they wei-e scatteredabout the fields, but were placed in their present position, bythe road-side, so as to be out of the way, and not tointerfere with the cultivation of the fields. At Harpham, there is a well, dedicated to St. John ofBeverley, who is said to have been born in this village, andto have wrought many miracles through the viitue of thewateis of this well. It is still believed to possess the powerof subduing the largest and fiercest animals. William ofMalmesbury relates that in his time the most rabid bull,when brought to its waters, became quiet as the gentlest lamb.At the same village there is, in a field near the church,another well, called the Drummers Well, to which appertainsthe following story, for which the writer is indebted toParkinsons Yorkshire Legends. About the time of thesec

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