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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... took the hero ten years to travel from Troy to Ithaca – a distance of three hundred miles or so as the crow flies – and when he finally walked in and his wife Penelope asked, as well she might, 'And where have you been?', she heard a ...
... took it upon himself to ban the parade altogether. He declared that the children who took the garland from house to house, collecting contributions, were breaking the law by begging, and the money was confiscated. Paradoxically, he may ...
... took their revenge by eating the octopus, boiled. BRISTOL. Remoras. A tale current among Bristol sailors in the seventeenth century told how a ship of that city had been infested with witches. This was discovered when the quartermaster ...
... took to engineering wrecks for his own profit. One night a dreadful storm swept the Ilfracombe coast, hurling a vessel ashore. William hurried to see what he could salvage, but what he found first was a badly injured woman cast up by ...
... blotches on its sides are the marks of St Peter's fingers, left when he took money from its mouth (Matthew 17:27). Folk explanations of marks on fish often relate to saints, or otherwise to the Devil, as in the story told of.
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 | |