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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... fairy islands' continued to haunt the imagination. Near MILFORD HAVEN in Wales, it was rumoured, lay 'the green meadows of the sea', from which fairy shoppers came to market on the mainland. The Scottish equivalent is HeatherBleather ...
... fairy tale and fantasy, where she remains a vivid symbol of feminine allure and danger. Some of the old theories, however, were remarkably tenacious. Barnacle geese – birds born from shellfish (seeBANNOW BAY, Southern Eire) ...
... fairies or 'little people'. The ruins were obviously deemed to have mystic significance, and identification of the site as supernatural territory may go back a long way. When the site began to be excavated in the nineteenth century ...
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Contents
Hampshire Kent London Sussex Isle ofWight | |
Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
CountiesAntrim Donegal Down Galway Louth Mayo Meath Sligo | |
Counties Clare Cork Dublin Kerry Waterford Wexford | |
Bibliography | |
References | |
Index | |