Cthulhu Britannica: Folklore

Great Britain in the 1920s is a nation steeped in stories drawn from history, myth, legend, and folklore. From the northernmost tip of the Shetland Islands to the southernmost beaches of Devon and Cornwall, from the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea and the English Channel, the United Kingdom is awash with tales passed down from one generation to the next. The very hills and mountains, lakes and lochs, and valleys and gorges of Britain are filled with stories of strange events and stranger creatures.
The folklore of Great Britain binds the people to the land, the seasons, the known, and the unknown. It tells of experiences both mundane and supernatural, wrapped up in stories meant to teach, to entertain, and often to serve as warnings. These stories and fables are shared in schoolyards, in town halls, and on city streets. They are discussed in university lecture theatres and whispered
in the dark corners of backstreet pubs. Taken together these stories, fables, and traditions form the ‘lore of the folk’ and, thus, wherever there are folk, there is folklore.
And so, the great cities and industrial centres of the United Kingdom are overflowing with fantastic tales tied variously to places, people, times, dates, and odd happenings. Likewise, the smallest hamlets or the most remote promontories and islands have their own folklore traditions—and, even if they did not, some enterprising person would no doubt make one up for you. Behind the modern façade of Britain in the 1920s is a country teeming with links to the supernatural.