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Tiddy Mun

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Illustration: Tiddy Mun
The legend
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Tiddy Mun

He laughs like a peewit.

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What's there
Flat drained carrs and the River Ancholme
Legend from
Ancholme Valley
Tone
Eerie
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Before you go

No single site; the drained Ancholme valley around Brigg. Footpaths along the river. Check before you go.

  • Ancholme Valley carrs
  • Near A18
  • The pin is approximate.
  • DateNew moon (in the tale)

Water for the Tiddy Mun.

Tiddy Mun was a tiny white-bearded spirit of the Ancholme carrs who laughed like a peewit and could make floodwater fall. In floods, families went out at the new moon and called 'Tiddy Mun, wi'out a name, tha watters thruff!' When Dutch engineers drained the carrs, the tale blames his anger for illness, dying livestock and missing Dutchmen. M. C. Balfour printed the tale in 1891.

Sources

  1. Tiddy Mun, Wikipedia —
  2. Tiddy Mun, Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project (Nottingham Trent University, 2024-25) —
  3. Tiddy Mun, in M. C. Balfour, Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars (Folk-Lore, 1891), repub. M. Behrend —

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