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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... Down, Galway, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Sligo SOUTHERN EIRE Counties Clare, Cork, Dublin, Kerry, Waterford, Wexford Bibliography References Index Copyright About the Book Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and seaserpents,
... seaserpents, fishermen's prayers and sailors' rituals – the coastline ofthe British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions. In The Fabled Coast, renowned folklorists Sophia ...
... SeaSerpents (translated by Richard Garnett, 1968). Peter Anson's Fisher FolkLore (1965) has been a wonderful resource. Horace Beck's Folklore and the Sea (1973) is compulsively readable and endlessly entertaining, while Peter Kemp's ...
... , Scottish Lowlands) – these make marine monsters and SEASERPENTS among the most viable of legendary ideas today. The. supernatural. Many stories told of the sea cannot be fitted into SOUTHWEST ENGLAND & CHANNEL ISLANDS.
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Contents
Hampshire Kent London Sussex Isle ofWight | |
Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
CountiesAntrim Donegal Down Galway Louth Mayo Meath Sligo | |
Counties Clare Cork Dublin Kerry Waterford Wexford | |
Bibliography | |
References | |
Index | |