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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... ships came sailing across, looking very warlike, and a second battalion from the southwest. Three or four galleys followed ... ship's anchor caught on a tombstone, while the top was invisible, disappearing into thick cloud. The rope was ...
... ship was driven on to the rocks and sank, and all on board except the devout pilot were drowned. As the vessel foundered, the bells were heard tolling, and they still ring out before a gale, 'but woe to the unhappy ship's crew that ...
... ships became mysteriously motionless, that they had been trapped by the remora, a small fish said to have great powers ... ship's beakhead, conveying a notion of something quite large and serpentine. There is a real remora, which is not ...
... ship's rudder, and a Spanish wreck salvaged in the Orkneys was found to have a coin dated 1618 wrapped in canvas ... ship – often under the step of the mast when she is built. The present Royal Yacht is a case in point.' Offerings like ...
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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 | |