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
... Saints 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 ...
... saints, the stories must be true. This kind ofthinking kept mythic lands on the map for centuries. St Brendan's Isle, supposedly discovered on Brendan's journey from BRANDON CREEK (Southern Eire), continued to be marked on charts of the ...
... Channel Islands), and was said centuries afterwards to have been reincarnated as that other English champion Nelson (seeSCAPA FLOW, Scottish Highlands & Islands). Much earlier, the seafaring saints exerted handson control over their.
... saints exerted handson control over their environment. Columba or Colm Cillé, according to his first biographers, could direct the weather (seeIONA, Scottish Lowlands), and moreover had a humane relationship with creatures of the deep ...
... black blotches on its sides are the marks of St Peter's fingers, left when he took money from its mouth (Matthew 17:27). Folk explanations of marks on fish often relate to saints, or otherwise to the Devil, as in the story told 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 | |