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
... , she left a wealth of material for her most cherished project, a collection of British sea and coastal legend, which is embodied in this book. The Fabled Coast LEGENDS & TRADITIONS FROM AROUND THE SHORES About the Authors.
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... legend, and no book involving sea-monsters, Krakens and the like could be attempted without consulting Bernard ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... legend of Atlantis, and notions of impiety, blasphemy, and sin are bound up with tales of 'drowned cities'. On the ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... legend of this kind was told of the river BOYNE (Northern Eire & Northern Ireland), and in the Channel Islands, an ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... legend, a seventeenth-century owner of the house, Alexander Otway, was a 'wrecker' who deliberately lured ships on ...
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 | |