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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... boat build up a large garland of handsome flowers upon a frame, and carry it from house to house, usually getting a ... boats and thrown into the sea. Originally the ceremony was not an overtly religious or at least not a Christian one ...
... boat, whilst the other boats did no better than usual.' Paying the gods or spirits of the sea for their favour was a time-honoured rite, and the related practice of placing money somewhere in the boat, often under the mast before it was ...
... boat. Her son was a merchant with several ships which traded between Minehead and Waterford in Ireland, and as soon as one of his vessels approached, Mrs Leakey's ghost would give a piercing whistle that invariably called up a tempest ...
... boat is used. She (or he, but since 2006 All Saints has had a woman vicar) then beseeches God to bless the sea, and drops a cross into the water. In good weather, up to two hundred people take part in the service. PADSTOW, CORNWALL. The.
... boat seeking his brother , recently drowned , among the seabirds . Before starting out on his last voyage , the brother had said to him : ' Jack , ' he say , ' when I'll die , I'll be an owd gannet , and if I heave round you'll heave me ...
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 | |
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