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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... , 'we should thank God at sea as well as on land.' At this the captain grew still more angry, swore and blasphemed, and with an oath exclaimed, 'Not so, thank yourself and a fair wind.' A storm at once arose. The ship was driven on.
... once arose. The ship was driven on to the rocks and sank, and all on board except the devout pilot were drowned. As the vessel foundered, the bells were heard tolling, and they still ring out before a gale, 'but woe to the unhappy ...
... once caught in the tidal stretches ofthe river Wye, as reported by Margaret Eyre in a letter to the authors of Sea Enchantress (1961), a book on mermaids and other seaspirits. Two fishermen were trawling for salmon with a net stretched ...
... once assumed the shape ofa coffin. Raising his voice, the Enchanter uttered words in an unknown language, and a whirlwind arose, with the Devil in its midst. The witch in her coffin rose high into the air and the crock followed them ...
... the story, the arms. The realm ofLyonnesse, it was said, once stretched west ofLand's End, but in the distant past the sea rose to cover it. The seventeenthcentury scholar Athanasius Kircher marked Atlantis midway between Africa.
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