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. |
From inside the book
... heard the traditions about Lihou and refashioned them into his ambiguous saint/demon, his aim being to deflate one piece of superstition with another. LULWORTH COVE, DORSET Napoleon's visit During the Napoleonic wars.
... heard the 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 ...
... heard Sarah say to Jack, 'You will?' and his reply, 'I will!' Soon after she was dispatched, ghastly rumours began to circulate that her ghost had been seen, the black marks of the rope plain on her swollen neck, dressed in her shroud ...
... heard unearthly screams, and a flash of lightning revealed the girl with arms upraised, her long hair streaming in the wind, before a huge wave arose from Vicart Point and swept her away. Her body was washed up a few days later, and ...
... heard the sounds of slaughter and ran, carrying a loaf ofbread, to the western side ofthe Coupée, a high, narrow neck of rock connecting the main island to Little Sark. There she hid in a cave, subsisting on her loaf, until she was ...
Contents
Hampshire Kent London Sussex Isle ofWight | |
Essex Norfolk Suffolk | |
NORTHEAST ENGLAND | |
NORTHWEST ENGLAND ISLE OF | |
WALES | |
SCOTTISH LOWLANDS | |
Highland Orkney Shetland Western Isles | |
CountiesAntrim Donegal Down Galway Louth Mayo Meath Sligo | |
Counties Clare Cork Dublin Kerry Waterford Wexford | |
Bibliography | |
References | |
Index | |