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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... wave-washed mound Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and ... waves. Even now, we still know less about the ocean, its farthest reaches and lowest depths, than we do about ...
... waves with hideous monsters and ravishing mermaids. Underwater, there was believed to be a 'duplicate creation' providing equivalents for everything found on land, not only sea-horses and sea-cattle (see ST BRIDES , Wales, and DURSEY ...
... house, Alexander Otway, was a 'wrecker' who deliberately lured ships on to the rocks so that he could plunder them. One night his son William, following him on his wicked errand, rescued a beautiful girl from the waves. She became.
... waves. She became William's wife, and a daughter, Kate, was soon born to the couple. When Kate was grown up, she married an Irishman and moved to Dublin, and after this things began to go wrong for her parents. Finding himself short of ...
... in her coffin , the crock bobbing behind , and she still works mischief , stirring the sea with her ladle and broom till the waves are mountain high and foam flies from up their crests . The Enchanter of Pengerswick , however ,
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 | |