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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... took Scott's fancy and entered popular folklore. William Jones wrote in Credulities Past and Present (1880) that the sailors of Minehead continued to believe that in storms they could hear 'the whistle of the horrible old lady', and the ...
... took an active part in smuggling or wrecking, and Hawker tells an entertaining though probably apocryphal tale ofa nearby parish where a stranger saw some smuggled goods being landed on the beach. Laden boats were passing between ship ...
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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 | |