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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... story, the arms. The realm ofLyonnesse, it was said, once stretched west ofLand's End, but in the distant past the sea rose to cover it. The seventeenthcentury scholar Athanasius Kircher marked Atlantis midway between Africa.
... story, the arms of the Trevilians (later Trevelyans) were cited, showing a horse's head emerging from waves – a heraldic motifthat appears on other coats of arms, and is less fancifully explained as symbolising the right of certain ...
... 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 trip ...
... story of Mrs Leakey, the whistling ghost of Minehead, appears as a note to Sir Walter Scott's poemRokeby (1813). Before her death, Mrs Leakey knew or suspected that she would return in a less pleasant guise: This old gentlewoman was of ...
... story to illustrate the common piece of sailors' lore forbidding whistling at sea, since it would summon a wind, and usually a storm (seeFISHGUARD, Wales). His source was John Dunton's Athenianism (1710), where the legend appears with ...
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 | |