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Kitty Jay (song)
Recordings & Music

Kitty Jay (song)

by Seth Lakeman

Manaton

Seth Lakeman's song of the Dartmoor legend of Kitty Jay, the servant girl buried at the crossroads near Hound Tor. Title track of his 2004 album.

Authors & Writers

Lisa Schneidau

Storyteller, author and folklorist living on the wild edge of Dartmoor, using traditional oral storytelling to explore our relationship with nature and folklore.

Nine Maidens Stone Circle
Stone Circles

Nine Maidens Stone Circle

Belstone, Okehampton

A Bronze Age cairn circle of at least sixteen low granite stones on the western slope below Belstone Tor, known as the Nine Maidens or the Nine Stones.

The Black Fox (song)
Recordings & Music

The Black Fox (song)

by Seth Lakeman

A Seth Lakeman song from his 2025 album The Granite Way, based on the Dartmoor legend of the Black Fox as a supernatural guardian of the moor.

The Huntsman and the Moon (song)
Recordings & Music

The Huntsman and the Moon (song)

by Seth Lakeman

A Seth Lakeman song from The Granite Way (2025) about Old Crockern, the Huntsman Devil of Dartmoor, who leads lost travellers across the moor.

The Magic Mist, and other Dartmoor Legends
Books & Publications

The Magic Mist, and other Dartmoor Legends

by Eva C. Rogers

Eva C. Rogers's collection of eleven Dartmoor legends, published for Christmas 1900 by Andrew Melrose, with drawings by Charles Eldred and P. B. Hickling.