Phantom Rabbit Monster: Rochdale, Lancashire January 14, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beach has recently been looking for the stranger monsters of British mythology and with some pride he comes today to the Baum-Rappit, a monster from Rochdale in Lancashire. What was the Baum-Rappit? Well as the name suggests it seems to have been a diabolical rabbit. Wright in his incredibly useful dialect dictionary comes up with […]
Travelling to Another World from Nineteenth-century Rochdale September 17, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Rochdale is a rather frightening town in northern England in the County of Lancashire. We have visited the religious eccentrics of this part of Britain on several occasions before: including the search for the wandering Jew in Burnley (on the wrong side of the Pennines), and Christ in an egg in Leeds (on the right […]
