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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... once stood a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. By the seventeenth century there was little of it left except the steeple, which continued to be saluted by sailors lowering their topsail as they passed. This was explained as a ...
... once believed that St Maclou lived on Ortach, but his only source is Hugo. It seems likely that the novelist had heard the traditions about Lihou and refashioned them into his ambiguous saint/demon, his aim being to deflate one piece of ...
... once anchored off Lundy, and the crew sent ashore for milk, saying that their captain was ill. This was in the reign of William and Mary (1689–94), when the Dutch were Britain's allies, so the islanders were happy to supply the sailors ...
... once thrived, but later became degenerate, awaking the gods' anger, and was destroyed by earthquake and flood. Plato attributed the tale to the ancient Egyptians, but he may simply have invented it to illustrate his philosophy. On the ...
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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 | |