{"id":329,"date":"2011-11-20T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-11-20T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T16:28:44","slug":"jenny-green-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2011\/11\/20\/jenny-green-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Green Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barafundle&#8217;s recent blog post made an <a href=\"http:\/\/barafundle.com\/blog\/?p=206\">interesting reference<\/a> to a bit of North Staffordshire folklore not mentioned in Jon Raven\u2019s <em>The Folklore of Staffordshire<\/em> (1978)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Jenny Green Teeth<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am originally from Stoke-on-Trent and these [marl] holes were a by-product of the [pottery and] brick-making industry left behind after the clay was extracted. The local marl hole was said to contain \u2018Jenny Green Teeth\u2019 who was rumored to drag children under the water if they got too close. I did not need any Grimm\u2019s <em>Fairy Tales<\/em>.  My imagination on this was enough to keep me wanting more. I would pester my father to tell me how his elder cousin, Arthur, plagued him with stories of her magical powers. For years I thought Jenny Green Teeth to be the sole product of Arthur\u2019s fertile imagination. Then, one weekend, I listened to Claire Balding\u2019s [BBC] Ramblings programme [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01508nn\">29th Sept 2011<\/a>, currently still online as &#8220;Listen Again&#8221; in the UK], which featured a walk through the Roaches area of North Staffordshire. During this programme, I heard reference to Jenny Green Teeth as a popular myth of the Staffordshire and Cheshire vicinity. On Googling I discovered she was a popular lady of English folklore. Her power extends to Shropshire and Lancashire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barafundle&#8217;s recent blog post made an interesting reference to a bit of North Staffordshire folklore not mentioned in Jon Raven\u2019s The Folklore of Staffordshire (1978)&#8230; * Jenny Green Teeth I am originally from Stoke-on-Trent and these [marl] holes were a by-product of the [pottery and] brick-making industry left behind after the clay was extracted. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}