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. |
From inside the book
... LOWLANDS Aberdeenshire, Argyll & Bute, Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway, East Lothian, Fife, Inverclyde, Moray, Scottish Borders SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Highland, Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles NORTHERN EIRE & NORTHERN IRELAND.
... NORTHERN EIRE & NORTHERN IRELAND CountiesAntrim, Donegal, Down, Galway, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Sligo SOUTHERN EIRE Counties Clare, Cork, Dublin, Kerry, Waterford, Wexford Bibliography References Index Copyright About the Book Pirates and ...
... Northern Eire & Northern Ireland). For the early Celtic monks, it became a form of pilgrimage to get in their coracles and launch themselves on the sea to journey they knew not where, for the love of God. Whatever happened on the actual ...
... Northern Eire & Northern Ireland). At the beginning of the twentyfirst, we might have thought ourselves safe from anything similar, but the sinking of the Costa Concordia early in 2012 made us think again. The human instinct when ...
... Northern Eire & Northern Ireland), who became a goddessfigure in laterlegend. Sir Francis Drake too took on a mythical character, gaining the reputation of a wizard during his lifetime (seePLYMOUTH, SouthWest England & Channel Islands) ...
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 | |