Stamps of mystery

Weather deities, magical portals, earth-moving giants and haunted valleys – Britain’s mountains are humming with myth, magic and mystery. Hanna Lindon explores upland legends from around the country

Chartarumludentist Anthony Wilkins [FT458:63] may wish to visit China. While living there in 2005 I found so many discarded playing cards on the ground that I was able to assemble a unique deck of 52

What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

Stamp collectors will go quackers for these: this ...

This summer, I became fascinated with one of Britain’s forgotten folklore beasties, the bogie rabbit. Now, I’d run across a few of these jokers over the years, but never taken them that seriously. I m

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra