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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... creatures of the deep, his encounters with whales mediated by prayer rather than slaughter. Man's subsequent mastery of the sea, such as it is, has been largely a tale of conquest rather than coexistence, an imbalance for which we may ...
... creature clings to its prey, covers it, and knots its long hands about it. Underneath, it is yellowish, on top, it is earthcoloured; this dusty shade is indescribable; it appears to be a creature made ofashes, living in the water. It is ...
... creature detached its sixth tentacle from the rock, and, throwing it on Gilliatt, tried to seize his left arm.' Hugo wrote that he had himself seen the 'devilfish' chase a swimmerin another cave, the Boutiques in Sark. It was four foot ...
... creatures may relate not to the octopus but to Giant or Colossal Squid, which can apparently be as much as sixty foot long ... creature to a rock. They released their comrade with difficulty, and took their revenge by eating the octopus ...
... creatures' leavings – and it is certainly incapable of steering or holding still any boat. See alsoBODMIN. BRIXHAM, DEVON. Coins. to. pay. Neptune. In the early twentieth century, the folklorist Edward Lovett made enquiries into the ...
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 | |