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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... woman said that one ofthe fishermen's descendants had fallen to his death while mending his roof. 'How sad,' said Miss Eyre. 'Ah, yes,' the woman replied, 'that was the mermaid's.
... woman replied, 'that was the mermaid's curse.' BUDE, CORNWALL. A. fake. mermaid. As a young student in the 1820s, Robert Hawker, later vicar of MORWENSTOW, played an elaborate trick on his neighbours at Bude. One moonlit evening, he swam or ...
... woman known in her old age as Granny Grylls. In her youth she had often walked to the beach and back carrying a baby that was never heard to cry. One day a customs officer said to her, 'Well, Mrs Grylls, that baby ofyours is very quiet ...
... woman vicar) then beseeches God to bless the sea, and drops a cross into the water. In good weather, up to two hundred people take part in the service. PADSTOW, CORNWALL. The. mermaid's. revenge. In about 1610, the historian John Norden ...
... woman, who was busy baking at the time, heard the sounds of slaughter and ran, carrying a loaf ofbread, to the western side ofthe Coupée, a high, narrow neck of rock connecting the main island to Little Sark. There she hid in a cave ...
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