The Fabled Coast: Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & IrelandRandom House, 2012 M06 28 - 528 pages Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen’s prayers and sailors’ rituals – the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions. |
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... devil or man? He was devil for aught they knew, But they sank his body with honour down into the deep. It was commonly believed that some supernatural power beyond human.
... devil loved him, so he presently sunk into the bottom of the sea and down into hell, where he raised up all the devils to the revenge of his death, and that they brought so great a storm and torments upon the Spaniards, because they ...
... two black blotches on its sides are the marks of St Peter's fingers, left when he took money from its mouth (Matthew 17:27). Folk explanations of marks on fish often relate to saints, or otherwise to the Devil, as in the story told of.
... Devil, as in the story told of the haddock at FILEY BRIG (NorthEast England). GWENVOR SANDS, CORNWALL. Tregeagle's. tasks. A Cornish phrase, 'to roar like Tregeagle', comes fromthe legend of Jan Tregeagle, who may have been a historical ...
... Devil's toenail', a fossil oyster, was used against arthritis. The logic behind this folk medicine is a form of ... Devil by her incantations and promised him her soul in return for his help. The site she chose for her spells was Kynance ...
Contents
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND | |
EAST ANGLIA | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
Cheshire Cumbria Lancashire Isle of Man Merseyside | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
NORTHERN EIRE NORTHERN IRELAND | |
Counties Clare Cork Dublin Kerry Waterford Wexford | |
Bibliography | |
References | |
Index | |