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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... ashore. William hurried to see what he could salvage, but what he found first was a badly injured woman cast up by the waves, her face battered beyond recognition. He carried her back to his house, where she died. William robbed her ...
... ashore for milk, saying that their captain was ill. This was in the reign of William and Mary (1689–94), when the Dutch were Britain's allies, so the islanders were happy to supply the sailors. After a few days, news came that the ...
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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 | |