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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... dead, and the Revenge had sunk or repulsed fifteen ships. Her powder was all gone, her masts were down, her pikes broken, forty of her hundred able men dead and most of the rest injured. Nevertheless, the Spanish made no further ...
... dead body of the ViceAdmiral Sir Richard Grenville overboard, they verily thought that as he had a devilish faith and religion, and therefore the devil loved him, so he presently sunk into the bottom of the sea and down into hell, where ...
... dead. Although the wind was favourable and strong, the vessel remained immovable, even with help from on shore, until one man shoved it off with his shoulder. (The poet George Sandys, telling this in a note to his 1632 translation of ...
... dead man had done to deserve execution. 'Done? Nothing whatsoever but killed the exciseman!' It was often said, as for instance at PORTLEMOUTH, that clerics took an active part in smuggling or wrecking, and Hawker tells an entertaining ...
... dead', after a certain number of years, and now he was in constant dread that she would claim him. Disasters followed wherever he went, until his shipmates considered him a 'Jonah' who brought bad luck (seeJONAH AND THE WHALE), and ...
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 | |