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