Buxton Folklore

  • Put It Back

    Put It Back

    Shoes in walls, witch bottles beneath floors, horse skulls under houses and dried cats hidden in ceilings. Our ancestors built protection into their homes – and when we find it centuries later, sometimes we still put it back.

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  • The Speed Wolf

    The Speed Wolf

    From medieval wolf hunters to modern roadside encounters, the strange story of the creature said to haunt the roads around Buxton.

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