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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... sea. To the longdistance sailor, the ocean is not only a highway but itselfa country, where only the landsman is 'all at sea'. The mariner knows its language and its sometimes bizarre customs (see for example ABERDEEN, Scottish Lowlands ...
... of the sea, such as it is, has been largely a tale of conquest rather than coexistence, an imbalance for which we ... sea poses its questions, and something in us has to rise to the challenge. In Longfellow's 'The Secret ofthe Sea' (1850): ...
... sea, a springtime gift from the land to encourage a plentiful gathering of fish fromthe waters. Most such rituals lapsed, often from clerical disapproval of their pagan implications, but in Abbotsbury near Chesil Beach they continue, in ...
... sea', and out ofit a castle emerged. Then a fleet of ships came sailing across, looking very warlike, and a second ... sea above the earth, mirroring the one below. The idea of the world as a solid island, in the midst of waters over and ...
... of an ocean either 'in the air or above the air'. BOSCASTLE, CORNWALL. Drowned. bells. Long ago, the inhabitants ofBoscastle, whose church had no bell, were jealous of the beautiful peal at neighbouring Tintagel, and raised money to buy ...
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 | |