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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... from all but a group of their fellows; none had more startling truths to tell, nor more scope for lies. These are ideal conditions for storytelling. Every maritime nation has its sea legends, and in our group of islands to the west of the ...
... At the beginning of the twentieth century, technology was king, but then along came the iceberg that sank Titanic (seeBELFAST, Northern Eire & Northern Ireland). At the beginning of the twentyfirst, we might have thought ourselves safe from ...
... the morning and hung up in houses and churches. In coastal communities, the wreaths were often cast into the sea, a springtime gift from the land to encourage a plentiful gathering of fish fromthe waters. Most such rituals lapsed, often ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... at it, and soon a man came SOUTHEAST ENGLAND.
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood. above was tugging at it, and soon a man came climbing down it from the clouds. He freed the anchor, but was then seized by ...
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 | |
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