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Peterr Folklore: English ghost ballads - are there any? (42) Folklore: English ghost ballads - are there any? 14 Mar 03

This started in What is a ballad? thread.
A friend said he'd heard that AL Lloyd reckoned that there were not any English (as opposed to Scottish or Irish) ballads that had supernatural or ghostly happenings in them. It can become a self-fulfilling prophecy in that any examples given someone will say 'Ah, but that's actually not English in origin'. Anyone got any ideas? It was suggested in another thread that the House Carpenter qualified, but the Demon Ghost version of that is in Scottish dialect.
I havn't been able to find two other suggestions, 'Sailor's Tragedy' or 'Flame of Fire', latter apparently collected by CJS in 1906 from Betsy Pike of Somerton. Perhaps I'll put out another request on that one.

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