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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... at the saint's prayers were turned into rock– since when, according to John Collinson's History of Somerset (1791), 'the stones in that country resemble the windings of serpents'. Like the similar but further developed legend of St.
... stone while trying to find hidden treasure among the rocks, while another told that he had been the last of the Druids, who had retreated to a cave when the islanders converted to Christianity. One day, seeing a ship in danger out at ...
... stone structure about halfa mile long off the Bahamas, led to excited claims that this was a remnant of a prehistoric city, but it was later proved to be a natural feature. More persuasive is a suggestion that Atlantis may have ...
... 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 whistling ghost of Minehead, appears as a note to Sir Walter Scott's poemRokeby (1813).
... stone, out of his reach, or he may come up out of the hole and seize you and drag you under the water,' said a local lady in 1967. Rumours of the Row Dog have been explained as having been put about by smugglers, wanting to scare people ...
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Hampshire Kent London Sussex Isle ofWight | |
Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
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