IDENTIFIER Mythical beasts of Britain

Can you tell your Stinkers from your Shucks? Your Werewolves from your Whizzys? Fear not, we’ve opened our storybooks to share our handy guide (You can still be slightly afraid…)

Tizzie Whizie Many a Windermere tourist has got in a tizzy looking for this bee-hedgehog-dragonfly-squirrel creature, spied by a canny boatsman in 1900. Lambton Worm Eel-y bad luck for John Lambton in the 1300s when his catch grew into a cattle-eating dragon, linked to the NE’s Worm Hill and Penshaw Hill. Lake Maidens These watery women inhabit Wales’ lakes and rivers. No drips, but generally gentler and kinder than their sea-loving mermaid counterparts. Herne the Hunter Local to Windsor, this ghostly antlered horserider horns in on works by Shakespeare, John Masefield, Susan Cooper and Alan Garner, too. Cailleach Something of a cold spell? Regard the power of Cailleach, a Gaelic creature – some say ‘hag’, some say ‘queen’ – connected to winter and stormy weather. Black Shuck Scarcely a month…

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