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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Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood. A storm at once arose. The ship was driven on to the rocks and sank, and all on board except the devout pilot were drowned.
... the beach. In The Vicar of Morwenstow (1876), Sabine BaringGould reports that the performance was repeated for several nights, with people coming from all the surrounding villages to see the marvel, until at last Hawker grew tired and ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood. Otway's daughter. It seems that a secret room was genuinely discovered at Chambercombe Manor in the 1860s or thereabouts, ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood. otherwise to the Devil, as in the story told of the haddock at FILEY BRIG (NorthEast England). GWENVOR SANDS, CORNWALL ...
... the predatory Frenchmen, may have borrowed the ruse fromthe occasion in the 1550s when the Flemish used a very similar ploy to capture Sark (seeLE PORT DU CREUX). LYDNEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The. seagod. Nodens. Near Lydney, about a mile from ...
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