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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... magical song of the Sirens without being tempted to his death, and on enchanted islands ruled by seductive queens he had mysteriously forgotten to go home. Penelope might have had a thing or two to say about that, or she might have ...
... magical islands (see for example RATHLIN O'BIRNE ISLAND, Northern Eire & Northern Ireland, and LAHINCH, Southern Eire). Not only were there strange lands in the ocean, there was even another sea above the earth. Medieval ideas of this ...
... magic, the clenched pain of cramp and other ills being thought of as transferable to the stony amulet. KYNANCE COVE, CORNWALL. The. Witch. of. Fraddam. One of the most powerful sorceresses of the West Country was the Witch of Fraddam. Her ...
... magical powers. It was sometimes said that it was alive, or at least capable of speech. In Credulities Past and Present (1880), William Jones reports an ancient belief that a magnet washed in spring water would be seen to breathe, and ...
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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 | |