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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... reported from time to time even now, and although some, like those that haunt the GOODWIN SANDS (South-East England), are identified as ghostly reminders of historical tragedies, others sail nameless through the mist, and might be the ...
... reported as a marvel. This example sounds like an unusual cloud display, and other more remarkable phenomena have been explained as mirages (see RAMSGATE , South-East England). Observers, however, sometimes interpreted such visions as ...
... , or St Merteriana's at Minster , and it is many years since anyone has reported hearing the spectral bells . Hawker may , in fact , have made the legend up , but if so , he was drawing on far older accounts of bells drowned in punishment.
... reported that 'I have often heard him howling before a westerly hurricane in the still of midnight at my house in Penzance, a distance of ten miles.' KEYNSHAM, SOMERSET. Snakestones. In the sixth century, St Keyne resolved upon a solitary ...
... reported as having inspired Hardy's fiction , sometimes the other way about . LUNDY , DEVON Invasion by the French A ship flying the Dutch flag once anchored off Lundy , and the crew sent ashore for milk , saying that their captain was ...
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 | |