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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... LOWLANDS Aberdeenshire, Argyll & Bute, Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, East Lothian, Fife, Inverclyde, Moray, Scottish Borders SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Highland, Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles NORTHERN EIRE & NORTHERN IRELAND.
... Highlands & Islands), and Charybdis, mother of all whirlpools (seeCORRYVRECKAN, Scottish Lowlands). He had heard the magical song of the Sirens without being tempted to his death, and on enchanted islands ruled by seductive queens he ...
... islands, countless rocks and reefs, uncharted in Odysseus's day and for two thousand years or more after, are found ... Highlands & Islands), and the seas around Ireland, according to popular report, are or were positively infested with ...
... Islands, and SALTBURNBYTHESEA, NorthEast England), and to assert some notional control they developed a remarkable ... Highlands & Islands). Much earlier, the seafaring saints exerted handson control over their.
... island and built himself a house which the locals christened 'Le P'tit Casquet' because it used to show a light late ... Highlands & Islands) – but here the tale seems to have mingled with legends of saints or sacred objects sailing the ...
Contents
Hampshire Kent London Sussex Isle ofWight | |
Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
CountiesAntrim Donegal Down Galway Louth Mayo Meath Sligo | |
Counties Clare Cork Dublin Kerry Waterford Wexford | |
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