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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... seventeenth century BCE and leading, perhaps, to the myth of ATLANTIS – going down. Throughout the ancient world, there were tales of island paradises, attainable before death ifyou just sailed far enough. To the Greeks they were 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, making merry ...
... seventeenthcentury owner of the house, Alexander Otway, was a 'wrecker' who deliberately lured ships on to the rocks so that he could plunder them. One night his son William, following him on his wicked errand, rescued a beautiful girl ...
... century, a local man reported that 'I have often heard him howling before a westerly hurricane in the still of midnight at my house in Penzance, a distance of ten miles.' KEYNSHAM, SOMERSET. Snakestones. In the sixth century, St Keyne ...
... century, tells how KerIs, a great city offthe coast ofFrance, was drowned ... century, the tale had crossed to the other side of the Channel, and it ... seventeenthcentury scholar Athanasius Kircher marked Atlantis midway between Africa.
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 | |