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Post by Graveyardbride on Feb 23, 2019 14:55:12 GMT -5
Legends and Lore of England’s NorthwestIt wasn’t until the close of the 18th century that Londoners became fully aware of the English provinces. Until that time, it had been customary to speak, rather, of town and country, the latter being a sort of backwater of uncouth behavior, outmoded fashions and bizarre superstitions. With rapidly improving communications, however, there followed a dramatic transformation of ideas that had hitherto dominated provincial life and the abandonment of beliefs that had remained relatively unchanged since medieval times. The process, alas, involved the loss of a unique peasant philosophy retaining elements of paganism and strongly influenced by magical ideas. The revolution was sudden and dramatic. Among the educated classes, ghosts and witches were outmoded and at the same time, rural areas became less dependent on magicians and healers, though they didn’t make their final exit until the following century. A new and far less comfortable world had been created Nevertheless the old mystical realm of wish-fulfillment, dating to pre-Reformation times, gradually lost its influence until it all but vanished forever.
Cumbria. The legends that survived were almost invariably dominated by the supernatural and consisted of tales handed down by generations of rural storytellers who were the transmitters of tradition in the pre-literate age. One of the more ancient legends has become famous as “The Radiant Boy of Corby Castle” in present-day Cumbria, formerly the county of Westmoreland. The story was first committed to print in the 19th century by Catherine Ann Crowe in her Night Side of Nature, a work that for the first time, introduced generations of readers to the older mysteries of the British Isles. In it we read of the beautiful golden-haired child, “clad in white,” who appeared to visitors at the Castle. Those who saw the specter would later be informed they would either achieve great honors and power or, a
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Post by Sam on Feb 24, 2019 3:46:30 GMT -5
I like reading about old legends and practices like these and the things people used to do and believe. Today it's hard to believe there was a time that people buried children in the foundations of buildings for good luck, and sacrificed people to the gods so that they would have a good harvest.
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Post by jane on Feb 24, 2019 12:47:18 GMT -5
I like reading about old legends and practices like these and the things people used to do and believe. Today it's hard to believe there was a time that people buried children in the foundations of buildings for good luck, and sacrificed people to the gods so that they would have a good harvest. |
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Post by julia on Feb 24, 2019 18:38:13 GMT -5
I also like these types of articles. We can learn a lot from old, almost forgotten legends and it's sad that more people don't take the time to read and learn about them. |
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Post by pat on Feb 24, 2019 20:10:49 GMT -5
Since this one is about England's Northwest, I hope that means there are other articles about the other parts of England.
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Post by madeline on Jun 14, 2023 14:48:42 GMT -5
I read somewhere several years ago that the spirits known as “Radiant Boys” were the ghosts of young boys who were raped and murdered. Has anyone else heard this, or is it just some modern-day interpretation? Also does anyone know the other locations haunted by Radiant Boys?
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Post by jane on Jun 14, 2023 15:28:29 GMT -5
I read somewhere several years ago that the spirits known as “Radiant Boys” were the ghosts of young boys who were raped and murdered. Has anyone else heard this, or is it just some modern-day interpretation? Also does anyone know the other locations haunted by Radiant Boys? |
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