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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Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... tradition, giving its pupils a day off on 13 May (Old May Day, by the preGregorian calendar), but after the school ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood. man ... tradition continued well into the twentieth century. Commander W. Beckett, writing of naval customs in the 1930s ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... tradition of Nicholl and his triumph. Unfairly, perhaps, the villain is better remembered than the hero, having ...
... tradition in stories like this may have inspired Victor Hugo to invent a satirical legend in his Guernsey novel ... traditions about Lihou and refashioned them into his ambiguous saint/demon, his aim being to deflate one piece of ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... tradition of Napoleon's landing.' He wondered whether, unknown to him, such a report had already been in circulation ...
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 | |