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🧚🧚‍♂️ Somerset Myths & Legends 🧚‍♂️🧚 The village of Buckland St Mary Buckland is said to be the last place in Somerset where fairies were seen and is said to have become a battleground for a fairy war - red fairies with pointed ears engaged little green pixies until the former group were driven out. Pixies are still said to visit the are where they were victorious.. Country folk had a fear and respect for these creatures, believing them to be the source of any bad luck or misfortune that befell them in their every day lives. They were given offerings to appease their anger and farmers would leave these offerings outside their barns in the hopes they would help with the harvest, this was also done inside the home as well.. hearths would have to be swept out every night so that the faeries could dance in the fireplace and bowls of fresh water left out for them to bathe in. Woe betide the housewife or servant that forgot, for mischief would follow........ 🧚‍♀️ Source- Great British Life - A Sprinkle of Somerset Magic #fairies #fairymyths #pixiesandfairies #fairywar #fairywars #somersetmyths #somersetlegends #somersetfairies #myths #legends #westcountrymyths #westcountrytales #westcountrylegends #countryfolklore #westcountryfolklore #somersetfolklore https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ68OhQoawU/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Somerset Legends - Dragons Kilve (Somerset) - Putsham Hill

The dragon known as Blue Ben is said to have built the nearby causeway in order to reach the sea - this would keep him cool on days he was particularly fiery.

He met his end when he slipped on the rocks and suffocated in the mud below.

His skull (actually a fossil ichthyosaur) and is on display in the local museum.

Source- Paranormal Database

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Somerset Myths & Legends- Dragons

Dinder & Wells Dinder Worm - The legend of the Dragon of Dinder goes back for centuries, and is documented on illuminated transcript which is now preserved in Eton College Library Records. The legend goes that a terrible Dragon was terrorising both livestock and villagers. The then Bishop Jocelyn was called upon to save the people of Dinder. He rode out with his men at arms, but at the last furlong commanded them to remain at a distance while he rode on and single-handedly beheaded the beast. The legend of the Dragon of Dinder lives on. Every 50 years since then a celebration of the slaying of the Dragon has been held. The legend says that should this tradition be forgotten and the slaying not re-enacted by a left-handed man of the cloth the Dragon may return. There is a Mosaic depicting the story made by the children of nearby Wells and Dinder set in stone on the perimeter walk of the Bishop's Palace. Nearby hamlet, Worminster and the hill Worminster Sleight are likely named after this legend and the Old English word for a dragon, "worm". Source- Wikipedia