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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... Land (2005, with Jacqueline Simpson), and The Lore of Scotland (2009, with Sophia Kingshill). When she died in 2008, she left a wealth of material for her most cherished project, a collection of British sea and coastal legend, which is ...
... lands, the perils and marvels of the open waves. Even now, we still know less about the ocean, its farthest reaches ... land and sea. All things supernatural favour the territory linking one state with another– twilight between day and ...
... Land of Youth, or Hy Brazil (seeINISHMORE, Northern Eire & Northern Ireland). For the early Celtic monks, it became ... lands on the map for centuries. St Brendan's Isle, supposedly discovered on Brendan's journey from BRANDON CREEK ...
... lands somewhere just over the horizon was a fantastic zoology, populating the waves with hideous monsters and ravishing mermaids. Underwater, there was believed to be a 'duplicate creation' providing equivalents for everything found on land ...
... LAND'S END (SouthWest England & Channel Islands). In the cases of genuine sunken towns such as DUNWICH (East Anglia) there is no suggestion that they deserved their fate – reality is enough, perhaps – but not so with the mythic lost lands ...
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 | |