Every community has strange traditions, customs and stories that pass down through generations.
And those who have embraced their local legends have shared the various myths and legends famous in their hometown, using #FolkloreThursday on Twitter.
The folktales range from spoon-stirred porridge bringing bad luck in Scotland to the ghost of a witch living in a hollowed out tree in the Midlands and bad fortune after eating an entire Cornish pasty.
Another old Irish tradition suggests the cross on the top of soda bread is to let fairies out of the bread while it rises, while in Cornwall a famous tale involves giants roaming the moors to create their famous granite tor on Stowes hill.