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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... Guernsey Folk Lore (1903), Edgar MacCulloch notes that there are other rocks around the Channel Islands 'which the fishermen are in the habit of saluting without being able to give any reason why they do so'. Jersey fishermen, for ...
... Guernsey mariners was Le Petit BonHomme Andriou ('Andriou the little fellow') in Moulin Huet Bay, a figure which looks rather like an old man wrapped in a monk's cloak and hood. MacCulloch records that fishermen passing the point would ...
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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 | |