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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... heard the traditions about Lihou and refashioned them into his ambiguous saint/demon, his aim being to deflate one piece of superstition with another. LULWORTH COVE, DORSET Napoleon's visit During the Napoleonic wars.
... heard the story'. The report seems, however, to have begun as literature. According to the memoirs of his second wife, in around 1882 Thomas Hardy was asked to write 'something ofthe nature ofa fireside yarn', and invented Napoleon's ...
... heard Sarah say to Jack, 'You will?' and his reply, 'I will!' Soon after she was dispatched, ghastly rumours began to circulate that her ghost had been seen, the black marks of the rope plain on her swollen neck, dressed in her shroud ...
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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 | |