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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... 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 anything similar, but the sinking of the Costa ...
... King,” then plunged into the waves.' The hoaxwould not have worked, of course, ifpeople had not been predisposed to believe in a mermaid. In early nineteenthcentury Cornwall it was evidently quite credible, although still remarkable ...
... king of France, promising that he would subdue all of England, but in a bloody battle he was captured by Nicholl and killed. The song was popular in the late sixteenth century, with its encouraging message of English superiority over ...
... 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 to the other side of ...
... King's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, Iflamed amazement. Sometime I'd divide And burn in many places – on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit would Iflame distinctly, Then meet and join. Atlantis. The ...
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 | |