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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... appeared to him, he cursed and fired his pistol at the vision. For this most terrible of sins, he was condemned to travel on and on, never coming to land, his ship appearing to doomed sailors as an omen of disaster. This maritime slant ...
... appeared to grow smaller, until when it reached the shore it looked like a toy. A tiny man stepped to land, and the islander then saw that the strange ship was nothing more than a sheep's bladebone tangled in seaweed. The Guernseyman ...
... appeared and crowed three times, after which the flood subsided. The original account, however, gives no reason forthe bird's appearance. PORTLEMOUTH, DEVON. The. vicar. and. the. Spanish. galleon. One version of an anecdote widely repeated ...
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Contents
Hampshire Kent London Sussex Isle ofWight | |
Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
CountiesAntrim Donegal Down Galway Louth Mayo Meath Sligo | |
Counties Clare Cork Dublin Kerry Waterford Wexford | |
Bibliography | |
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Index | |