About & How to Use
What you'll find here, and how to make the most of the map
What you'll find here, and how to make the most of the map
The Folklore Map of the British Isles gathers the supernatural geography of these islands into a single interactive atlas. From Black Shuck loping along the Norfolk coast to the Cailleach shaping the mountains of the Highlands, every entry is pinned to the exact place where its legend is rooted — built from folklore scholarship, heritage records and primary accounts rather than repeated hearsay.
The map grows steadily as new legends are researched, verified and added, so there is always more to find than there was last time. Each entry begins as a lead — from old folklore collections, heritage datasets or a story sent in by a visitor — and is independently checked against sources before it earns a pin. Where the evidence is thin or a tale can't be located to a real place, it's held back rather than guessed at.
Entries span eleven kinds of strangeness across Britain and Ireland:
The islands hold far more than any one map can hold, and local stories are easily lost. Share a lead and we'll research and verify it before it joins the map.