CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 06/13/18

I recently bought a book from the Oxfam Online Shop titled Lincolnshire Folklore by Ethel H.Rudkin , ( 1936) which is packed full of folklore curiosities, including many animal references. One which caught my beady eye was the Commonpiece cat, at Gunthorpe, Lincolnshire (on pages 30 -31).

"Some three hundred yards from the hamlet of Gunthorpe, on the Trentside road leading to West Stockwith, is an opening in the bank, the end of a lane,known as Commonpiece Lane. This spot iss aid to be haunted by a species of white cat;and those who have seen it say it is of abnormal size. This apparition was quite common forty or fifty years ago. ( i.e c. 1880s). I remember when I was a boy returning from Stockwith one Sunday evening in late September, and being overtaken by Mr Joe Jenkins, a local Wesleyan preacher...he asked me if the cat had been seen lately? or if I had seen it.I had not, but asked him, "Have you sen it, Mr Jenkins?" and he replied, "Scores of times!" it always crosses the road from the river and runs through the opening in the bank; it is white, and nearly as large as a pig." (The story then goes on to describe how a man was walking down the same road on a snowy night when he saw the cat and aimed a kick at it, whereupon it vanished. He returned the next morning and saw his own footprints but not the spoor of the cat!)

"It is known that human bones lie buried beneath the bank just here, for about seventy years ago some farm-labourers unearthed a skeleton whilst earthing up a pie of potatoes (sic). The bones were reburied. Nothing is known as to the identity of this skeleton, whether it is the body of some person who had met with foul play , or someone who had been found drowned, and the body buried near the place where the body was discovered - a common practice years ago. ( Per C.K.S. Gunthorpe.)

Source: Lincolnshire Folklore Ethel H.Rudkin Gainsborough Beltons, Church St 1936

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Today is Mother's 89th birthday, and she appears to be having a lovely time. She has asked me to thank everyone who has set their good wishes. This afternoon Charlotte comes over for the playthrough of OTT and later there will be cake and ice cream. I have just bitten the bullet and bought 1m 6f Gambusia affinis to be delivered on Friday. Iam extremely nervous, but very excited. I sincerely hope that the male will have already put his pair of retractable hemipenes to use and that the feales will be pregnant already. I am very nervous about having only one male.

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We continue to trawl the counterculture with this particularly groovy issue, in which Jon talks to Frank Zappa’s younger sister about her book, her brother and other things, Jeremy goes to see Wreckless Eric, Doug goes to see Echo and the Bunnymen, Alan goes to see Woody Pines, Graham riffs on Hawkwind, Jon writes about Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, and there is loadsa other stuff as well ….

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And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, there are columns from all sorts of folk including Neil Nixon, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo and Kev Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna . There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and tiger quolls who are havinga little snooze (OK, nothing to do with small dasyurids who are a little sleepy, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

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FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?

Well, everything, actually!

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

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