Black Annis

This week we crawled into the Dane Hills of Leicester to meet Black Annis, the blue-skinned, iron-clawed hag of English folklore who supposedly lurks in a cave and snatches anyone who wanders too close.

We dug into where the legend came from, why a monster this grotesque might have been invented in the first place, and how she stacks up against her American cousin (and yes, we all learned how to pronounce her name the hard way).