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Edward G. Flight

Best known for a playful retelling of the legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, this little-known 19th-century writer has lasted through one memorable work. The surviving record is thin, which gives the poem an old-book curiosity all its own.

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The Horse Shoe The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft

The Horse Shoe The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft

by Edward G. Flight

About the author

Edward G. Flight is a little-documented author remembered mainly for The Horse Shoe: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, a verse retelling of a well-known English legend. Public catalog and library records consistently link his name to that work, which has remained available through archival and reprint editions.

Because reliable biographical information about him is scarce in the sources I could confirm, it is safest to describe him through the work itself rather than make stronger claims about his life. What does come through clearly is an interest in folklore, superstition, and lively narrative verse.

That makes Flight an appealing figure for readers who enjoy overlooked Victorian-era writing, especially pieces that sit somewhere between legend, humor, and popular tradition.