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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... called jaune dorée, 'yellow gilt' in French, from its colour. Other derivations for its name have been proposed, some claiming that it comes from French adorée, 'worshipped', since according to Fletcher Bassett's Legends and ...
... called Jochmus, for several ages maliciously passed himself off for Saint Maclou.' Fletcher Bassett's survey of maritime folklore, Legends and Superstitions ofthe Sea (1885), records that Guernsey sailors once believed that St Maclou ...
... called the Dwarf's Chapel. Dwarves, as such, feature quite rarely in British folklore, and here they can be considered as synonymous with the fairies or 'little people'. The ruins were obviously deemed to have mystic significance, and ...
... called Bermudez) was later restored. In the nineteenth century, Somers's descendants preserved a lodestone, mounted in iron, which had been one of the admiral's most precious possessions. Before going to sea, he had always touched his ...
... called Vanderdecken, and his ship is famed and feared as the Flying Dutchman (because the Netherlands produced so many sailors, English seamen called almost any north European a Dutchman). The story goes that Vanderdecken sailed round ...
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