In English folklore, Jack's Land is any area of farmland that is left uncultivated due to either a perceived infertility or superstition. In some regions, the name for such areas is "No Man's Land".[1][2]
References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore, p.198
- ^ Curtler, William Henry Ricketts (1920). The Enclosure and Redistribution of Our Land. Clarendon Press. p. 11.