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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... called on the expertise of Sandy Hobbs. Iam grateful to the journal Folklore for permission to use material frommy article on the Tobermory galleon, and in particular to Deborah East, Jessica Hemming, and Caroline Oates fortheir help in ...
... , and LAHINCH, Southern Eire). Not only were there strange lands in the ocean, there was even another sea above the earth. Medieval ideas of this aerial ocean were called into play to explain sightings of 'skyships' (seeBODMIN, SouthWest.
... called into play to explain sightings of 'skyships' (seeBODMIN, SouthWest England & Channel Islands), vessels sailing in the air, a strand of folklore that has in fact grown more common in modern times, although today witnesses are more ...
... called Magonia, from which cloudships would sail to carry off the corn beaten down in storms (making a profit for sorcerers called tempestarii, who raised the gales and then sold the ruined crops to the skysailors). A more specific ...
... called Le Tchan du Bouôlé ('The Dog of Bouley'), and it has been suggested that Tchan (chien) is a corruption of Chouan, the name applied to royalists who escaped to Jersey during the French Revolution. 'History tells us that they ...
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 | |