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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... tells the 'short and true Historie of a Fish' that lurked under a vessel's keel for a fortnight, 'drawing the ship with it against wind and weather'. Physical descriptions of the remora vary considerably. Pliny says that Caligula's fish ...
... telling the culprit that 'very few of his descendants would die in theirbeds'. This was said to have happened in the early twentieth century, and was clearly remembered in Brockweir (misprinted in the book as Brockwin). A local woman ...
... tells of the prowess of the Cornish sailor Nicholl, who fought and overcame a boastful privateer, John Dory. Dory had offered his services to the king of France, promising that he would subdue all of England, but in a bloody battle he ...
... telling the witch that the Enchanter's mare must drink poisoned water, so that she would throw her rider. Pengerswick himself must be drenched 'with some hellbroth, brewed in the blackest night, under the most evil aspects of the stars ...
... tells how Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha were the sole survivors of a deluge sent by Zeus to punish mankind. In the ... telling of the encroachment ofthe sea upon coastal towns and fields, and many such tales from along the shores of ...
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