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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... rocks and reefs, uncharted in Odysseus's day and for two thousand years or more after, are found even in a sea as small as the Mediterranean. Some islands, as ifthey were bewitched fairy realms, really do come and go. Vegetation clotted ...
... 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 ship's crew that hears them, for wreck ...
... rock, and, throwing it on Gilliatt, tried to seize his left arm.' Hugo wrote that he had himself seen the 'devilfish' chase a swimmerin another cave, the Boutiques in Sark. It was four foot across, and had four hundred suckers, which ...
... rock. They released their comrade with difficulty, and took their revenge by eating the octopus, boiled. BRISTOL. Remoras. A tale current among Bristol sailors in the seventeenth century told how a ship of that city had been infested with ...
... rock a little way off shore, draped his head in seaweed, wrapped oilskin round his legs fora tail, and (otherwise naked) sat on the rock with a hand mirror, singing and yelling until he got attention. People ran into Bude saying that a ...
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NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
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