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
... contributions do not appear, as well as those whose do. They are, in alphabetical order: Reverend Peter Blackett, St Michael's church, BownessonSolway; Sara Brown, Cambridge and County Folk Museum; Dr David Caldwell,
... church, Mudeford; Father Milo Guiry, St Declan's church; Paddy Hodgins, Seamus Roe and Sandra & Bryan Rogers, Clogherhead Historical Society; Mairi Hunter and Ruth Airley, Ewart Library, Dumfries; Alison Kentuck, Receiver ofWrecks ...
... churches. In coastal communities, the wreaths were often cast into the sea, a springtime gift from the land to encourage a plentiful gathering of fish fromthe waters. Most such rituals lapsed, often from clerical disapproval of their ...
... church saw a cable stretching from sky to earth, attached at the bottom to a ship's anchor caught on a tombstone, while the top was invisible, disappearing into thick cloud. The rope was straining as if something above was tugging at it ...
... church door. Very similar events were reported in Ireland in the eighth and tenth centuries, at Clonmacnoise and TELTOWN (Northern Eire & Northern Ireland), while another tale from Gervase implies that the aerial sea was continuous with ...
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 | |