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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... tidal stretches ofthe river Wye, as reported by Margaret Eyre in a letter to the authors of Sea Enchantress (1961), a book on mermaids and other seaspirits. Two fishermen were trawling for salmon with a net stretched between their boats ...
... tide after her. And he an old man of sixtyseven, with a wife and a houseful of children at home! The second mermaid was 'the bootifullest merrymaid that eye could behold', twisting her long hair up like a girl getting ready for her ...
... tide brought the sand back as fast as he could remove it. With the aid of priests and prayers he was once more removed, this time to Gwenvor Sands near Land's End, where he remains to this day. His shrieks reach around the whole of ...
... tide; here the survivor was named as Trevilian. In support of the story, the arms. The realm ofLyonnesse, it was said, once stretched west ofLand's End, but in the distant past the sea rose to cover it. The seventeenthcentury scholar ...
... tidal wave. An account in H. J. Whitfield's Scilly and Its Legends (1852) tells how Arthur's followers were fleeing from Mordred's troops when they saw between themselves and the advancing forces the gigantic ghost of Merlin. Mordred ...
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Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
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