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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... weather (seeIONA, Scottish Lowlands), and moreover had a humane relationship with creatures of the deep, his encounters with whales mediated by prayer rather than slaughter. Man's subsequent mastery of the sea, such as it is, has been ...
... weather permitting, in the afternoon, when the garlands are taken out in boats and thrown into the sea. Originally the ceremony was not an overtly religious or at least not a Christian one, but by the mid nineteenth century the vicar ...
... weather) are very often big, black, and canine (seeOVERSTRAND, East Anglia), and Bouley's dog is a classic example, reports of him almost certainly predating the French refugees. BRECQHOU, CHANNEL ISLANDS. The. devilfish. Many dreadful ...
... weather'. Physical descriptions of the remora vary considerably. Pliny says that Caligula's fish was like a large slug. The Dutch traveller quoted above mentions 'a great broad taile', and says that the rest ofthe fish was wound round ...
... weather. The Devil was not sure of his power over the Enchanter of Pengerswick, who was said to have potent sorcery at his command, but he played along, telling the witch that the Enchanter's mare must drink poisoned water, so that she ...
Contents
Hampshire Kent London Sussex Isle ofWight | |
Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
CountiesAntrim Donegal Down Galway Louth Mayo Meath Sligo | |
Counties Clare Cork Dublin Kerry Waterford Wexford | |
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