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
... SCOTTISH 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.
... Scottish Highlands & Islands), and Charybdis, mother of all whirlpools (seeCORRYVRECKAN, Scottish Lowlands). He had heard the magical song of the Sirens without being tempted to his death, and on enchanted islands ruled by seductive ...
... Scottish Lowlands) – these make marine monsters and SEASERPENTS among the most viable of legendary ideas today. The. supernatural. Many stories told of the sea cannot be fitted into SOUTHWEST ENGLAND & CHANNEL ISLANDS.
... Scottish Lowlands, for a description of the ceremony performed when crossing the equator). No matter what its dangers and hardships, it is home. To the coastal fisherman and his family, the sea has a more ambiguous status, for though it ...
... 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 largely a tale of ...
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 | |