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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... Folklore Society, she served as editor of FLS Books and also the journal Folklore. Her books include Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain (1985), Gothick Cornwall (1992), Lost Atlantis (1997), On Pilgrimage (2003), The Lore ofthe Land ...
... FolkLore (1965) has been a wonderful resource. Horace Beck's Folklore and the Sea (1973) is compulsively readable and endlessly entertaining, while Peter Kemp's Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (1976) is indispensable. Many newer ...
... Folklore for permission to use material frommy article on the Tobermory galleon, and in particular to Deborah East, Jessica Hemming, and Caroline Oates fortheir help in sorting this out. For miscellaneous assistance and advice, I should ...
... Folklore Society; Sharon & Vikki Fulcher; family of the late Ted Fulcher (Joan, Valerie, Maureen & Susan); Terry & Melanie Goodwin; Bob & Beth Hardman; John Harris; Tristan Gray Hulse; Christine & Gareth Jones; Barbara & Tony Kelly ...
... folklore. Secrets. of. the. sea. Landsmen love to hear sailors' yarns because, however fabulous, they could be true. Sailors love telling them to show off, and to convert grim experience into romance. There is no occupational group with ...
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 | |