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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... death, and on enchanted islands ruled by seductive queens he had mysteriously forgotten to go home. Penelope might have had a thing or two to say about that, or she might have decided the less said the better. Odysseus had come up with ...
... death ifyou just sailed far enough. To the Greeks they were the Fortunate Isles or Hesperides; to the Celts, Tir na nÓg, the Land of Youth, or Hy Brazil (seeINISHMORE, Northern Eire & Northern Ireland). For the early Celtic monks, it ...
... death, and that they brought so great a storm and torments upon the Spaniards, because they only maintained the Catholic and Romish religion.' In an 1881 essay on 'The English Admirals', Robert Louis. After more than twelve hours' battle ...
... deaths are sure to follow.' This moral tale was widely repeated in the late nineteenth century, and the Reverend ... death but revived: He had the ringing of bells in his ears, which increased as consciousness was becoming less, and ...
... death, Mrs Leakey knew or suspected that she would return in a less pleasant guise: This old gentlewoman was of a social disposition, and so acceptable to her friends, that they used to say to her and to each other, it were pity such an ...
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 | |