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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... seen below decks, several of whom confessed and were executed. Sandys also mentions an alternative explanation offered when ships became mysteriously motionless, that they had been trapped by the remora, a small fish said to have great ...
... seen and heard, and everyone rushed to the beach. In The Vicar of Morwenstow (1876), Sabine BaringGould reports that the performance was repeated for several nights, with people coming from all the surrounding villages to see the marvel ...
... seen at the Lydney Park Museum. LYME REGIS, DORSET. The. Bermudas. and. The. Tempest. In 1609, the retired admiral Sir George Somers, mayor of Lyme Regis, was summoned back to sea to command a fleet taking supplies to the new colony ...
... seen to have inspired many details in the play. 'During all this time,' he writes ofthe storm (in a version with revised spelling and punctuation), 'the heavens looked so black upon us that ... nor a star by night nor sunbeamby day was ...
... seen to breathe, and would reply to questions in 'a voice like that ofa sucking child'. The stone was also considered to cure gout, ifworn next to the skin. MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. Mrs. Leakey's. whistling. ghost. The story of Mrs Leakey, 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 | |