User:TiddyMun

Me

I'm a supporter of environmental and ecological causes, particularly woodland conservation and animal protection. I love music, from Blues to Reggae, and enjoy watching all types of motorsport. I'm a huge football fan, and a fundraiser and volunteer for SVP Children's Camps.

In folklore

Tiddy Mun was a bog spirit worshipped in Lincolnshire, England, who supposedly had the ability to control the waters and mists of the Fens. He is described as looking like an old man with long, tangled white hair and a matted white beard. He is said to have worn a grey gown so that at dusk he was difficult to see. His laughter was said to resemble the call of the peewit.

The legend

He was so angered at the draining of the Fens by the Dutch, led by Cornelius Vermuyden, in the seventeenth century, that he cast a curse of pestilence upon villages. According to the story Tiddy Mun was eventually placated after the villagers gathered at midnight on a full moon, poured buckets of water back into the bog and apologised for the damage caused. He was not exclusively malevolent; if the Fens flooded and the waters reached the villages, people would go out at night and call Tiddy Mun wi'out a name, tha watters thruff! ("Tiddy Mun without a name, the water's rough!") until they heard the cry of a peewit, and the next morning the waters would have receded.[1]