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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... fish, which may have been originally called jaune dorée, 'yellow gilt' in French, from its colour. Other derivations ... fish, or in France le poisson de St Pierre, from a tale that the two black blotches on its sides are the marks of St ...
... fish, possibly salmon. Another find was a bronze plaque showing a figure crowned with sunlike rays and brandishing a sceptre, his chariot drawn over the waves by four horses, and flanked by winged spirits and reclining tritons with fish ...
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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 | |