What old myths and legends did you grow up with where you are from?

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I remember my older brother was babysitting us as kids and he scaring us about the Banshee will come and get us and we were terrified...

I also love that you used a poodle emoji and not the wolf one 🤣

I was born and grew up in Glasgow, but my parents and grandparents were Highland, and we were always warned about kelpies - water spirits that lurked near rivers or ponds, and would drag you under.

If you think about it, it's quite a clever way of teaching children to stay away from dangerous things.

Yes, this! Though she was Jenny Greenteeth or Nanny Greenteeth where we came from (also north west). She lurked in still waters like lodges and reservoirs…

My family are Scots/Irish so had a lot of tales about the fairy folk, and the Sidh are definitely not cute and cuddly, lots of child snatching and general weirdness. Some family members swore they had interactions with them.

We had Senga the ghost who lived in an abandoned factory building. We used to dare each other to look in the windows and some really brave kids went inside. I was shit scared of even looking in the window. Even now I hate that building and wish someone would knock it down. My kids also know of Senga but outgrew being scared of her much younger than I did.

Bungay church? Interesting. I was always told Blythburgh. Shuck is very much a Suffolk legend too. We are in essex now and the story is known about the coast ( but I think not the name Black Shuck) but I think not inland. 🐶

Legend of Alderley Edge

Very specific but from when I was a kid.... there is a roundabout and the story was that if you drove round it 7 times a golden arm would come out and curse you. Does that count?

The 9 o clock horses 🐎

The orc who lived under the bridge...and ate gnocchi

My grandma told me this story and now I tell DS.

It's a happy ending, the orc gets full of wine and gnocchi, falls asleep and the dad chops his head off.

The Kidsgrove Boggart

I grew up near “the gateway to hell”

I'm so happy someone else remembers Jenny Greenteeth, although I'd never heard of the Black Dogs?
Other legends I remember were White Nancy, and the horrific Little White Foot...also "White Rabbit, White Rabbit..."- said on the 1st of the month.

That the Devil had wanted to drown the Weald, so had started to dig through the Downs, to let the sea rush in.

Although, for some reason, he only had the one night to do it, and got scared off, thinking the candle in the window of a cottage was the upcoming dawn.

Devil's Dyke, near Brighton.

The very well documented ghostly hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill in Kent, who accepts a lift and then vanishes.
A sea serpent, off the Kent coast at Margate
Another black dog, warning of bad things to come.
We had a scary Hooden Horse in Kent, as part of the festivities around harvesting hops, often a real horse skull, with snapping jaw.
Loads of ghost ships in the Channel and ghost planes from the Battle of Britain.