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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... drowned cities'. On the east coast of England the losses are not only real but relatively recent: more than thirty places mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086) have disappeared by erosion from the Holderness coast alone. To the west, we ...
... Drowned bells Long ago , the inhabitants of Boscastle , whose church had no bell , were jealous of the beautiful peal at neighbouring Tintagel , and raised money to buy bells of their own . In Cornish Feasts and Folk - Lore ( 1890 ) ...
... drowned in punishment for sacrilege, such as that told at ST OUEN'S BAY . It was widely believed that phantom bells were heard by drowning sailors, although, of course, like other near-death experiences, this can only be learned from ...
... drowned land of Lyonnesse Tales of drowned places - churches , cities , even continents - are almost universal . The oldest example , in the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh , dates from around 2000 BCE , while in the Old Testament story of ...
... drowned when the king's daughter treacherously opened the sluices and let in the sea . Of all its inhabitants , only the king himself escaped , outriding the rushing waves on his horse . By the fifteenth century , the tale had crossed ...
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 | |