Yorkshire Dragons, Giants, and other Folk Tales.

A collection of twenty folk or fairy tales from across Yorkshire. Including stories of dragons, giants, and other legendary happenings.

Most are traditional stories, but a few are new stories based on scraps of traditional legends of the Huddersfield area.

The stories are:

• Billy Biter and Filey Brigg


• The Building of the Kirk at Heaton


• The Crafty Ploughboy, or Yorkshire Bite


• The Donkey, the Table, and the Stick  


• The Dragon of Loschy Wood


• The Dragon of Wantley


• The Drummer boy of Richmond


• The Farndale Hob


• The Giant of Dalton Mill


• The Giant of Sessay    


• The Golden Cradle and Castle Hill  


• The Legend of Semerwater    


• The Marsden Cuckoo 


• The Miserly Judge or ‘He had paid for it’


• Potter Thompson       


• The Serpent of Handale


• The Seven Sisters & Their Bad Neighbour 


• Upsall and its Crocks of Gold    


• Wadda of Mulgrave, and Bell, his wife 


• The Wicked Giant of Penhill