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Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events

by Sabine Baring-Gould

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Preface to Revised Edition
  3. 3Epigraph — The Ghost of Trinity Church, York
  4. 4Peter Priestly, the Wakefield Parish Clerk
  5. 5Prophet Wroe
  6. 6Bishop-Dyke Pond
  7. 7Snowden Dunhill, the Convict
  8. 8James Naylor, the Quaker
  9. 9“Old Three Laps”
  10. 10Christopher Pivett
  11. 11David Turton, Musician at Horbury
  12. 12John Bartendale, the Piper
  13. 13Blind Jack of Knaresborough
  14. 14“Peg Pennyworth”
  15. 15Peter Barker, the Blind Joiner of Hampswaite
  16. 16The White House
  17. 17Jemmy Hirst; an Oddity
  18. 18The Tragedy of Beningbrough Hall
  19. 19A Yorkshire Butcher
  20. 20The One-Pound Note
  21. 21Mr. Wikes, of Leaseholme
  22. 22The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-Publican
  23. 23Job Senior, the Hermit of Rumbold’s Moor
  24. 24Nancy Nicholson, the Termagant
  25. 25The Wooden Bell of Ripon
  26. 26Old John Mealy-Face
  27. 27The Boggart of Hellen-Pot. A Tale of the Yorkshire Moors
  28. 28Jonathan Martin, the Incendiary of York Minster
  29. 29Brother Jucundus
  30. 30Mary Bateman, Witch and Murderess

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