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 as a marvel. This example sounds like an unusual cloud display, and other more remarkable phenomena have been explained as mirages (seeRAMSGATE, SouthEast England). Observers, however, sometimes interpreted such visions as ...
... reported in Ireland in the eighth and tenth centuries, at Clonmacnoise and TELTOWN (Northern Eire & Northern Ireland), while another tale from Gervase implies that the aerial sea was continuous with our own oceans, though far distant. A ...
... reported hearing the spectralbells. Hawker may, in fact, have made the legend up, but if so, he was drawing on far older accounts of bells drowned in punishment for sacrilege, such as that told at ST OUEN'S BAY. It was widely believed ...
... 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 between their boats, and noticed that something ...
... reported that he had examined the 'room' in question, and found that it was no more than a space in the roof, without a floor and more importantly without a window, but this has not stopped the legend appearing in many later histories ...
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 | |