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 ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood. called into play to explain sightings of 'skyships' (seeBODMIN, SouthWest England & Channel Islands), vessels sailing in ...
... Channel Tunnel if they want to go abroad, but every so often we get a rude ... England the losses are not only realbut relatively recent: more than thirty ... England & Channel Islands). In the cases of genuine sunken towns such as ...
... England & Channel Islands, and SALTBURNBYTHESEA, NorthEast England), and to assert some notional control they developed a remarkable range of taboos (seeROSEHEARTY, Scottish Lowlands). The hazards were no less for a smuggler or ...
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