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
... NORTHEAST ENGLAND County Durham, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Yorkshire NORTHWEST ENGLAND & ISLE OF MAN Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Isle ofMan, Merseyside WALES Isle ofAnglesey, Bridgend, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire ...
... NorthEast England), and to assert some notional control they developed a remarkable range of taboos (seeROSEHEARTY, Scottish Lowlands). The hazards were no less for a smuggler or buccaneer, but the potential rewards were far greater ...
... northeast there appeared a great fog, 'much like unto the sea', and out ofit a castle emerged. Then a fleet of ships came sailing across, looking very warlike, and a second battalion from the southwest. Three or four galleys followed ...
... (NorthEast England). GWENVOR SANDS, CORNWALL. Tregeagle's. tasks. A Cornish phrase, 'to roar like Tregeagle', comes fromthe legend of Jan Tregeagle, who may have been a historical figure, perhaps a seventeenthcentury steward who oppressed ...
... (NorthEast England), this refers to a local profusion of ammonites, fossilised shells of cephalopods that are distant ancestors ofthe Pearly Nautilus. Their distinctive coiled form reminded the ancient Greeks and Romans of rams' horns ...
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 | |