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. |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 89
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... legend, a seventeenthcentury owner of the house, Alexander Otway, was a 'wrecker' who deliberately lured ships on to ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood ... legend appearing in many later histories of Chambercombe Manor, and naturally it is said in modern retellings that ...
... legend of Jan Tregeagle, who may have been a historical figure, perhaps a seventeenthcentury steward who oppressed the peasantry, or, less convincingly, a Bluebeardlike serial killer of his wives. Whatever his sins in life, he achieved ...
Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland Sophia Kingshill, The Estate of Jennifer Westwood. serpents'. Like the similar but further developed legend of St Hilda of WHITBY (NorthEast England), this refers to a ...
... legend as recorded by Robert Hunt in Popular Romances ofthe West ofEngland (1865), the Witch of Fraddam still floats along the Cornish coast in her coffin, the crock bobbing behind, and she still works mischief, stirring the sea up with ...
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 | |
References | |
Index | |