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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... sailors travelled widely, and so only they could describe the wonders of foreign lands, the perils and marvels of the open waves. Even now, we still know less about the ocean, its farthest reaches and lowest depths, than we do about ...
... sailors' yarns because, however fabulous, they could be true. Sailors love telling them to show off, and to convert grim experience into romance. There is no occupational group with more tales than sailors: none until quite lately spent ...
... sailors, although, of course, like other neardeath experiences, this can only be learned from the reports of those who have survived. In Credulities Past and Present (1880), William Jones cites an account of an old man who was on the ...
... sailors in the seventeenth century told how a ship of that city had been infested with witches. This was discovered when the quartermaster went down to the hold, where to his astonishment he saw a lot of women, 'his knowne neighbours ...
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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 | |