Hags and Crones Lore

[Margaret]

For any and all hags and crones lore, recommendations, knowledge, etc.

[Emmeline]

I'm reading Katharine Brigg's The Fairies in Tradition and Literature and chapter 4 covers a few hag and crone types:

The Cailleach Bjeur, The Blue Hag of the Highlands, appears to be the personified spirit of Winter. She herds the deer, and fights Spring with her staff, with which she freezes the ground. When at length Spring comes, she throws her staff under a holly tree, under which green grass never grows... Black Annis of the Dane Hills of Leicestershire is a hag-like creature of the same kind. Her name is said to be derived from Anu or Danu, the Celtic goddess... in the lowlands it is "Gentle Annie" who brings the storms. In Wales, The Old Woman of the Moutains leads travellers astray. She is one of the Gwyllion, the hill fairies of Wales. They are friends of the goats, as the Cailleach Bheur is of the deer. Occasionally they come down from the mountains and enter human houses, where they must be hospitably entertained.
In Somerset there are occasional rumours of the Woman of the Mist....she looks like an old crone gathering sticks. She was seen face to face in 1920, and again in the 1950s. She just becomes part of the mist.

[Emmeline]

Other hag types mentioned are Peg Powler, who lives in the river Tees and drags children into the water if they get too close to the edge, and Jenny Greenteeth, another child-snatching water hag, described as having green skin and sharp teeth.

[Margaret]

Oh, interesting! Thanks for sharing!