monthoffearart: The BulbeggarTiffany Turrill9x12″pencil/digital A farmer coming home late one

monthoffearart:

The Bulbeggar
Tiffany Turrill
9x12″
pencil/digital

A farmer coming home late one night by way of Creech Hill saw a figure lying in the road and went to its help. But as he reached it, it shot up to more than human height and chased him all the way home. His family ran out to help him and saw it bounding off up the hill, shrieking with laughter.
It was a “bulbeggar,” a word for a bogey that goes back to the sixteenth century. This account, however, was collected in 1906, and the attachment of bulbeggars to Creech Hill itself only came about in the 1880s when two bodies, supposedly that of a Saxon and Norman, were dug up in a nearby quarry. Afterward the hill became haunted by a “black uncanny shape” that would stalk behind travelers, and the persistent sound of unseen footsteps.

I LOVE Tiffany’s folklore art. It’s so perfect.