East Anglia is the flattest territory in the United Kingdom and this seems to have influenced its supernatural fauna and folklore. Though fairy-lore, in the strictest sense, has not survived particularly well – with the partial exception of Lincolnshire – there are a number of unusual traditions about black dogs and other monsters of the Fenman’s fevered imagination.
East Anglian Fairy Places
Blow Hill (Great Melton)
Fairy Foreland (Somersby)
Mermaid S Pond (Rendlesham Suffolk)
Southwold Cliffs (Suffolk)
East Anglian Fairy Tales
A Fairy and a Butcher and a Woman in Stowmarket (Suffolk)
A Fairy and A Ploughman at Onehouse (Suffolk)
Brother Mike: A Suffolk Tale (Dialect)
East Anglian Fairy Sightings
Baby Kidnapping in Stowmarket (Suffolk)
Fairies in Stowmarket (Suffolk)
Fairy Armies in Huntingdonshire
Fairy Visitor in Stowmarket with Yellow Shoes
Hop Ground Fairies (Stowmarket, Suffolk)
East Anglian Fairy Beliefs
Fairies and Making Beds (Suffolk)
Frairies, Pharisees and Pharisees’ Loaves
Perries, Fairies and the Northern Lights in Suffolk
Pharisees Riding Horses (Suffolk)
Woodbridge Pharisee Belief (Suffolk)
East Anglian Fairy Books
Barret, W.H. and R.P.Garrod East Anglian Folklore and Other Tales (London Routledge and Kegan Paul 1976)
Codd, David Mysterious Lincolnshire (DB Publishing 2013)
Jeffrey, Peter East Anglian Ghosts Legends and Lore (Lucas Books 2006)
Saunders, W.H.Bernard Legends and Traditions of of Huntingdonshire (Peterborough: Geo. C. Caster 1888)
Tebbutt, C.F. Huntingdonshire Folklore (Friends of the Norris Museum 1984)
Waldron, David and Christopher Reeve, Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore (Milton Keynes: Hidden Publishing 2010)