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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... fishermen's prayers and sailors' rituals – the coastline ofthe British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions. In The Fabled Coast, renowned folklorists Sophia Kingshill and ...
... garlands, once exclusive to fishermen's families, had extended to any local children, and after 1918, it was decided that it would be more suitable to lay the Channel Islands, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Scilly Isles, ...
... of superstitions, and found a particularly rich vein among fishermen. Among other customs, he noted that a coin was often pushed into one of the corks used to float nets, and an old man of Brixham told him that about thirty years earlier,
... fishermen from Lowestoft in Suffolk used to throw copper coins overboard when setting out to sea, 'to buy a good catch'. BROCKWEIR, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The. mermaid's. curse. A mermaid was once caught in the tidal stretches ofthe river Wye, as ...
... Fishermen. salute. the. rocks. On the tiny island of Lihou there once stood a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. By ... fishermen are in the habit of saluting without being able to give any reason why they do so'. Jersey fishermen, for ...
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Hampshire Kent London Sussex Isle ofWight | |
Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
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