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
... sail leagues and leagues beyond, – Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea. from 'The House ofLife' (1881), by Dante GabrielRossetti A picture that used to appear regularly in school history books is Millais's Boyhood ...
... sailing in the air, a strand of folklore that has in fact grown more common in modern times, although today witnesses are more likely to interpret their visions, or illusions, as alien spacecraft. While the Unknown now is outer space ...
... sail nameless through the mist, and might be the Flying Dutchman herself. Men. and. women. of. the. sea. To the longdistance sailor, the ocean is not only a highway but itselfa country, where only the landsman is 'all at sea'. The mariner ...
... sailing on between them or turning to escape, Grenville declared that 'he would rather choose to die than to dishonour himself, his country, and her Majesty's ship' by showing his back to the enemy. The Revenge advanced, one ship ...
... sailing across, looking very warlike, and a second battalion from the southwest. Three or four galleys followed, with ... sail to carry off the corn beaten down in storms (making a profit for sorcerers called tempestarii, who raised the ...
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 | |