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