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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... lived a woman known in her old age as Granny Grylls. In her youth she had often walked to the beach and back carrying a baby that was never heard to cry. One day a customs officer said to her, 'Well, Mrs Grylls, that baby ofyours is ...
... lived on Ortach, but his only source is Hugo. It seems likely that the novelist had heard the traditions about Lihou and refashioned them into his ambiguous saint/demon, his aim being to deflate one piece of superstition with another ...
... lived to be 104, and was alive when the West Lulworth contributor first heard the story'. The report seems, however, to have begun as literature. According to the memoirs of his second wife, in around 1882 Thomas Hardy was asked to ...
... lived in Ludgvan in the early nineteenth century, and had an adulterous affair with Jack, a handsome horse dealer. Her husband died, the cause announced as cholera, but there was strong suspicion that the death had not been natural ...
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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 | |
Bibliography | |
References | |
Index | |