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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... bells. Long ago, the inhabitants ofBoscastle, whose church had no bell, were jealous of the beautiful peal at neighbouring Tintagel, and raised money to buy bells of their own. In Cornish Feasts and FolkLore (1890), Miss M. A. Courtney ...
... bells of heaven were ringing him into Paradise!' The person to whom the old man told his story added that 'I know the locality where the circumstance occurred, and there is no bell within a circuit of sixmiles, but one old cracked church ...
... bells and a cry of 'I will, I will!' These sounds, echoing down the years, signalled the unholy union of Sarah Polgrain and Yorkshire Jack. Sarah was a farmer's wife who lived in Ludgvan in the early nineteenth century, and had an ...
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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 | |