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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... ENGLAND & CHANNEL ISLANDS Channel Islands, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Scilly Isles, Somerset SOUTHEAST ENGLAND Hampshire, Kent, London, Sussex, Isle ofWight EAST ANGLIA Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk NORTHEAST ENGLAND County ...
... (East Anglia), that can grow and shrink. Mirages including the famous 'fata Morgana' play their part (seeRAMSGATE, SouthEast England), and then there is the whole volcanic box of tricks, from the 1963 appearance of Surtsey off Iceland ...
... England & Channel Islands). In the cases of genuine sunken towns such as DUNWICH (East Anglia) there is no suggestion that they deserved their fate – reality is enough, perhaps – but not so with the mythic lost lands of the western ...
... East Anglia), and Bouley's dog is a classic example, reports of him almost certainly predating the French refugees. BRECQHOU, CHANNEL ISLANDS. The. devilfish. Many dreadful stories have been told about octopuses, which were believed to be ...
... (East Anglia), but infants as well as corpses could be brought into play. At Cawsand, according to Sabine BaringGould's Book of the West (1899), there lived a woman known in her old age as Granny Grylls. In her youth she had often walked ...
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