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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... told by Homer in the eighth century BCE, were a blueprint for all later WONDER VOYAGES . As sailor's yarns go, the ... told by generations of sailors. They are not pretty tales for children, but tough stories told by tough men, whose ...
... told 'by divers credible persons who stood and beheld him, that he would carouse three or four glasses ofwine, and take the glasses between his teeth and crush them in pieces and swallow them down', and in Britain's wars with Spain his ...
... told that when creating the world, God 'divided the waters which were under the firmament fromthe waters which were above the firmament'. In ninthcentury France, many educated people thought that in the air was a country called Magonia ...
... told at ST OUEN'S BAY. It was widely believed that phantom bells were heard by drowning sailors, although, of course, like other neardeath experiences, this can only be learned from the reports of those who have survived. In Credulities ...
... told about octopuses, which were believed to be aggressive and dangerous, seizing swimmers and holding them underwater, and capable even of sinking boats. An old legend of this kind was told of the river BOYNE (Northern Eire & Northern ...
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 | |