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. |
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... John's Bay, every Midsummer Eve, a practice noted by several twentiethcentury writers without any further explanation. Another rock honoured by the Guernsey mariners was Le Petit BonHomme Andriou ('Andriou the little fellow') in Moulin ...
... John Dunton's Athenianism (1710), where the legend appears with the title 'The ApparitionEvidence', and is introduced as an 'Original Manuscript' sent by 'a Citizen of great Integrity', although it is quite possible that Dunton invented ...
... John Norden described Padstow as 'the beste haven in the north parte of the Shyre, being capable of manie Ships', although he added that a skilful pilot was needed, since the harbour was rocky to the west and barred with sand on the ...
... John Page writes that the parson was in the middle ofa service when one of his parishioners entered hurriedly and whispered in his ear. The minister continued for a short while with his sermon: Then his pentup excitement found vent, and ...
... John. Carter. the. King. of. Prussia. In the eighteenth century, the coast of western Cornwall swarmed with smugglers, whose illegal trade enjoyed a great deal of popular support. Farmers, merchants, and even local magistrates, it is said ...
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NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
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