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Lays & Lore
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2024
Welcome to Lays & Lore, where we embark on a journey through the enchanting English countryside, delving into its rural pastimes, ancient traditions, and captivating folklore. Join me as we uncover hidden gems nestled in the heart of out pastoral landscapes, share tales of old myths and legends passed down through generations, and celebrate the timeless beauty and enduring spirit of Albion. Whether you're a nature enthusiast, folklore buff, or simply curious about the hidden wonders of rural life, there's something here for everyone. Come along and explore the magic with me.
Ghosts & Hauntings - Abbotskerswell
Discover the chilling true story of Aller House in the picturesque Devon village of Abbotskerswell. In this well-documented case from recent history, follow the terrifying experiences of newlyweds as they encounter an persistent supernatural entity in their 200-year-old ground floor flat.
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Heritage & History - Sherborne
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Discover the enchanting town of Sherborne, a hidden gem in Dorset, England. Journey through over 1300 years of rich history, from Saxon settlements to Tudor intrigue.
Folklore & Legend - Black Dogs
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Let's embark on a chilling journey through the misty landscapes of British folklore as we explore the legendary black dogs that have haunted tales for centuries. From the menacing Barguest to the protective Church-Grim, discover the rich tapestry of spectral hound lore that spans the British Isles.
Custom & Tradition - Churchyard Lore
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Journey through the world of Britain's ancient churchyards and cemeteries in this captivating exploration of history, folklore, and enduring traditions. From Celtic crosses to curious burial practices, and from lively medieval festivities to solemn Victorian memorials, discover the stories etched in stone and whispered by the yew trees.
Ghosts & Hauntings - The Winterbornes
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Join me on a journey through some of the Winterborne villages of Dorset, where ghostly legends have captivated locals and visitors for centuries.
Heritage & History - Exmoor
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Explore the captivating history and legends of Exmoor. Dive into the fascinating journey of Exmoor, from its designation as a National Park in 1954 to uncovering ancient legends and personal stories that bind people to this unique landscape.
Folklore & Legend - The Greenman
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The Greenman, a character from traditional folklore, has captured the imaginations of many in the modern world. Books, articles, and websites on the Greenman abound, each of them looking at the figure from its own perspective.
Custom & Tradition - Old Country Words
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Let us take a journey back in time, exploring the richness of the English language through some fascinating and old-fashioned country words.
Ghosts & Hauntings - East Chinnock
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At the heart of the village stands our focus for today: the Old Rectory. But we're not here for a history lesson. No, we're here to explore something far more exciting - the ghostly residents of this haunted building.
Heritage & History - Cheddar
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Nestled in the picturesque Mendip Hills of Somerset, England lies the ancient village of Cheddar, a place steeped in history, heritage, and even supernatural tales. Cheddar boasts a rich and ancient past, having served as an important Roman and Saxon centre. As early as 1130 AD, the breath-taking Cheddar Gorge was recognised as one of the "Four Wonders of England."
Folklore & Legend - Enigmatic Pixies
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In the folklore of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall they are impish little creatures associated with the wild countryside. Though diminutive in size, their pranks and antics have loomed large in West Country mythology for centuries.
Introducing Lays & Lore
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A brief introductory video explaining what the Lays & Lore channel is all about. If you are interested in the countryside, English folklore, tradition and heritage you have come to the right place.
I live here, never tire of this lovely little town.
And sadly your going to give it all up to Islam that evil never ends 1,400 years of death and concurring all people that are not them sad for Irish ☘️ people and all
Hes an aspect of Cernunnos for me. An embodiment of the woodland spirit.
Great video! I'm from south Devon but its nice to hear about our northern lands too :)
Finding your channel was pure serendipity! The Medieval through Tudor eras are my favorite periods of UK history. I taught accelerated students in grade 5 (U.S.) for nine years. American history is an important topic of study in this grade. Around Halloween every year we would study the colonial period from 1607-1783 when America became its own country after the War of Independence aka the Revolutionary War. One of the important things that the Puritans, Separatists and Covenanters brought with them from England and Scotland was the symbolic art that was put on grave markers, which were generally NOT looked down upon by most colonial settlers. The members of my teaching team and I decided to teach our students about life and death during this period of time and how the symbolic art brought comfort to families and friends of the dead when they visited the community graveyard often life was so difficult in the “wilderness”. Students were encouraged to find out if they had family members or relatives buried in our town’s cemetery and to find their graves during our visit. On Halloween we teachers and our classes walked together over to the town cemetery and did grave rubbings and looked for deceased loved ones as well as looked for not only “standard” grave art but also unusual symbols too. Students were also encouraged to look for interesting inscriptions and/or info and write it down. There was one family buried all in a row that had nine children ranging from a brand new infant to a 17 year old boy. All nine of them plus the father all died within five days of each other due to a diphtheria epidemic at the end of the 19th century. The mother lived for 50 more years after losing her entire family. That always made a huge impression on the students! The next day (and for however long the kids wished to discuss their thoughts and feelings about our activity) we had fascinating discussions with our classes about what they learned and how they felt about the activity. Living in the Western U.S. we don’t have ancient graveyards like those in the UK. However, there’s just as much to learn from the newer cemeteries as the centuries old ones. In fact, visiting cemeteries throughout my own country, Canada and overseas is a favorite hobby of mine because I am able to learn about the people, their lives, culture (not always) and the burial rituals of the time and place that they died. Talk about a fascinating snapshot of a particular person, place and period of history! I apologize for taking up so much space, but I felt that you might find interest in my story. Thanks for your patience! Tomorrow is Sunday, and I plan to watch as many of your videos as possible.😊
Very interesting story - I love graveyards not in a morbid way but the fact they are a microcosm of life (in death).
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What a beautiful place! It looks like a painting. It’s good to know such towns still exist and are full of life to this day. Could you tell me the population?🤗🐝❤️
Yes Sherborne is a lovely place, very 'olde worlde' - the abbey and the Green out front are always busy. The current population (as of 2021) is just over 10,000. Thanks for the comment and if you get chance I would visit.
@@LaysAndLore Thanks for the info, and I certainly will if I’m ever near there.🤗🐝❤️
I witnessed with my brother and two young daughters, a large black wolf/ hound with red eyes on top of Leath hill. It was after dark and the hill was covered with low cloud. Siting in my 4x4 with the lights on we all watched in silence as the hound approached and circled the truck, stoping at each door and sniffing with deep unmistakeable searching breaths. It stood again in the head lights looking straight at us, it then changed colour from black to red to blue, crouched as if to jump at us where upon I drove forward as fast as I could. The hound disappeared, it did not move out of the way it simply vanished. Without prompting I asked my daughters what they had seen and they confirmed exactly what I had seen. To this day I know these things exist and never doubt anyone who says they have seen something unexplainable.
That's fascinating and rather creepy - the closest I've personally come to such a sighting was a big cat on Exmoor but I think mine was not supernatural. Thanks for sharing the story.
Great documentary. Loved the voiceovers. You did a much better job than i would of done. You managed to hide your accent quite well most of the time. Lol. 😊😊
Glad you enjoyed it - I used my best telephone voice. Lol 😀🙂
Ghost stories are always interesting but as for a slip in time that would imply that House in question is somehow linked to the position in space that it was when the event took place which is no longer the same and ever changing.
A valid comment and thank you but I believe it was a time slip as we have no way (especially technologically) of determining if this 'link' has shifted. The prolonged experience and interactivity makes a spectral encounter very unlikely in this case IMHO.
Very well done! I’m subscribing 🐝🤗❤️
Welcome aboard and thank you.
Vey weird, was talking to someone yest about a time a strange other worldly black dog was supposed to have appeared and now this pops up?
TH-cam is listening to you ... I'm kidding - I am pleased you watched the video 🙂
Just wanted to say that I don't know how youtube algorythm and your channel found me a couple of months ago but I've been enjoying every single video. Whenever one new is uploaded I mostly play them while breakfast. I find them all really interesting. Greetings from Spain.
Thank you very much I am very pleased you enjoy my videos as I very much enjoy making them 🙂
So interesting, thank you! I absolutely adore exploring local churches and their graveyards, so much history to be found!
Thank you Nic and I agree - for me though its not just the history and lore but the peace and quiet 🙂
Me too. I do this too when I am visiting a different state or country. Local churches and graveyards provide a wealth of fascinating information about the people, place and period of time in life as well as death. ☠️ I’ve had family and friends tell me that my hobby is macabre-until I invite them to join me on one of my visits. Every time I take a sceptic with me to visit a cemetery they end up admitting that they had no idea about how much one can learn from reading grave markers and appreciating the symbolic art and other details on them.😮
@@LaysAndLoredefinitely. In college a regular visit to the town cemetery was often the only place where I could hear my own thoughts because of noisy roommates and/or neighbors or people in the university’s library. When the weather was good and not too cold the cemetery was also the perfect place for super concentrated studying.
Just watched a couple of you videos. I just wanted to say that the people that believed and practiced a different "pagan" religion before they heard about Christ, saw Christ as the fullfillment of what they already believed. They saw things like the green man, the white stag, as deities that were sheperding them and directing them to the most high God(The Trinity). Which is why you will always see incorporation of the norse gods in their architecture, the green man, the white stage, gargoyles and many other such gods in Christian architecture as they all have their role and place in our lives and in Gods good world. Love your videos. Keep it going!
The majority of the world never accepted Christianity, only a small minority.
Christianity didn't reach South America, Asia and Africa till many centuries later, and it was a hard slog forcing Christianity upon those people. They didn't just "see the light," but Christianity was forced on them. And this will shock you, but Taoists, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims and many other groups do not accept Jesus as the lord.
Thanks nice to see someone thinking about nature and life and living in harmony together
The Woodwose would be an interesting subject to cover.
Absolutely thank you it is on my 'to do' list 🙂watch this space.
So interesting! I loved it. Thank you.
Much appreciated thank you 🙂
Fascinating. Thank you.
Thank you 🙂
I loved this, thank you. History and the paranormal are my two favourite subjects. Do you think the first story may have been a time slip? I have read of many people experiencing these phenomena and actually interacting with people and places.
Thank you and I personally believe it was a time slip - it is more than a haunting due to its nature and prolonged experience.
I have just found your channel and have subscribed. Love the history and folk lore and even a mention of ghosts. Your voice is good to listen to. Will binge watch. Thank you.
Thank you I really appreciate your comment and welcome aboard 🙂
I found this interesting 🤔
Thank you.
Thank you for this video. The scope of history is interesting.
Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed the video.
It's great to see local folklore get some attention! Well, local for you, I'm in Denmark :D I love the English countryside, I was lucky enough to see a decent slice of it through a train window going from Manchester to London and then on to Salisbury a couple of years ago, it is beautiful!
Thank you very much I agree - but I am biased 🙂as it is definitely a passion of mine!
@@LaysAndLore We're always biased towards our homelands, it's where our souls belong :)
VERY INTERESTING.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
Really good info, but the ai images makes the video hard to enjoy
Thanks for your comment. To keep a weekly schedule I don't have the time to produce all the art myself (I am a digital artist by occupation). The AI art has been heavily modified by me its the only way I can keep up the content delivery and skirt round TH-cam's brutal copyright restrictions I'm afraid. I hope you can still enjoy the videos.
I would imagine actual photos of the Green Man are pretty rare. 😉😄
I think the green man and the Woodwose or wild man as well as the modern Bigfoot phenomenon are all connected
Nice insight! Love your videos💙💙
Thank you
Yay Carlisle cathedral gets a mention. I'll have to go look now to satisfy my curiosity about the green man
Let me know how you get on
Interesting video, thank you 😊
Thank you, wasn't sure about this one but glad I did it 🙂
Another great video, thank you 😊
Thank you very much.
Very interesting, great video. Great mix of history and stories of hauntings. Love the paranormal accounts.
Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed it I have a lot more to come 🙂
Really enjoyed this! Great job on the storytelling 🙂
Thank you so much Nic glad you enjoyed - watched your Hellfire Club video...now I'm even more jealous 🙂
@@LaysAndLore it was definitely worth the trip!
Cheddar is on my list! Haven't been there for years. Great video once again. There's definitely a west country twang to the narration on this one.... 🤔
Perhaps I might bump into you next time 🙂- and the 'twang' is strong in this one despite my best telephone voice effort!
@@LaysAndLore you sound fabulous 👌🏻
Wonderful place, amazing history 😊
Yes one of my favourite places to visit - such a shame about Cox's Mill being levelled it was kind of an iconic building in the Gorge. Thanks.
Stunning location ! Brought back some childhood memories of visits there 😊 thanks for sharing !! Much enjoyed .
Thank you very much - I used to visit intentionally in January/February as they usually close the Gorge road so they can clear the debris and loose rocks. You can walk right through the Gorge on the road with no traffic!
Bit late in commenting but i found this fascinating to watch and listen to.
Thank you I am really pleased you enjoyed it.
Wonderful 😊
Thank you very much.
Came over from Nic's channel walking the wyrd😊
Welcome aboard I am really pleased to see you and I hope you enjoy my content.
Brilliant intro !! Looking forward to seeing more from you 😊
Thank you very much - I really appreciate the comment and I am pleased you like the video.
Beautiful photography and wonderful narration. I look forward to seeing more from your channel!
Thank you very much I do get a sense of achievement when it goes up 🙂 unfortunately the narration isn't me I am not brave enough for that...yet, not sure if a broad Somerset accent would work! 😂
Wonderful introductory video, so looking forward to your future content 😊
Thank you so much really appreciated.