The Local Mythstorian Podcast
Hosted by founder of The Local Mythstorian project, Eli Lewis-Lycett, each episode focuses on Eli's extensive research into a piece of folklore or curious local history from across Cheshire, Derbyshire or Staffordshire, revealing the hidden story within. Visit thelocalmythstorian.com for more.
Podcasting since 2022 • 37 episodes
The Local Mythstorian Podcast
Latest Episodes
HISTORICAL RE-RUN: CHANGING GODS (MERCIAN CHRISTIANITY AND THE FALLEN STONES OF ARBOR LOW)
Arbor Low is regarded as one of the most important prehistoric sites in England and a bastion of our ancient cultural identity. It is most definitely a place of wonder, but its vision comes complete with the seemingly unanswerable conundrum as ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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17:50
HISTORICAL RE-RUN: SCHOLAR OF MAGIC (RANULF HIGDEN AND THE WANDS OF CHESTER CATHEDRAL)
The Cheshire monk Ranulf Higden is remembered to historians today as the author of a distant world history from the fourteenth century. However, beyond his daily religious work in the abbey at Chester, he was an inquisitive and curious man of h...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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27:23
HISTORICAL RE-RUN: THE MAGIC HATTERS (UNDERSTANDING THE STORY OF THE BAKEWELL WITCHES)
The story of the Bakewell witches is unique within the annals of English witchcraft and a tale thought by some to be so fantastical that it may not even be true. Yet research cannot only place the event firmly in the context of the times, but i...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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20:12
HISTORICAL RE-RUN: THE HUNGRY PROPHET (THE LEGENDARY SALE OF ROBERT NIXON)
The story of Robert Nixon, the 'Cheshire Prophet’ starved to death by the king, was once the best known legend of the county, retold and republished dozens of times across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Precisely who the man was howev...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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33:22
HISTORICAL RE-RUN: INVISIBLE FORTRESS (THE VANISHING OF SHIPBROOK CASTLE)
The castle at Shipbrook near Davenham is long lost to us today, its last traces being cleared from the land in the 1790s. However, in balancing the brutal events of early Norman England together with the history of a key local family, not only ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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33:40
