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
