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
... Wrecks; Diana Leake, Bridport Library; Diane Leggett, Local Studies Centre, North Shields Library; Anne Lenihan, Dungarvan Central Library; Florence Luscombe, St Ives Library; Reverend Donald MacEwan, St Monans church; Clare McIntyre ...
... wrecked in the storm, while the Revenge herself now sank, as if disdaining to survive her commander. The English held that this was the work of God, the Spanish that it was infernal, and 'so soon as they had thrown the dead body of the ...
... wreck , misfortunes , and deaths are sure to follow . ' This moral tale was widely repeated in the late nineteenth century , and the Reverend Robert Hawker , vicar of Morwenstow from 1834 to 1875 , composed a popular poem on the subject ...
... had in her mast-step a coin showing the goddess Fortuna holding a ship's rudder, and a Spanish wreck salvaged in the Orkneys was found to have a coin dated 1618 wrapped in canvas under the keel , evidently placed there as a charm.
... wrecks for his own profit. One night a dreadful storm swept the Ilfracombe coast, hurling a vessel ashore. William ... wreck that she had been none other than his own daughter on her way from Ireland to see him. Tormented by remorse ...
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 | |