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 ... sailors' yarns because, however fabulous, they could be true. Sailors love telling them to show off, and to convert ...
... sailors: none until quite lately spent more time in isolation from all but a group of their fellows; none had more startling truths to tell, nor more scope for lies. These are ideal conditions for storytelling. Every maritime nation has ...
... sailors' travelogues. The immensity of the sea, its inconceivable depths, its ultimate mystery – coupled with the fact that we are able to justify our wish to believe with scientific discovery, for instance of the Colossal Squid (see ...
... sailors). A more specific account by the medieval historian Gervase of Tilbury relates how some people leaving a church saw a cable stretching from sky to earth, attached at the bottom to a ship's anchor caught on a tombstone, while the ...
... sailors, although, of course, like other near-death 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 ...
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 | |