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maritime folklore

The Skin Left on the Rocks

A journal entry on the selkie of Scottish, Irish, and Faroese tradition — the seal that becomes human by shedding its skin, and what is owed, and lost, when that skin is taken.

The Bells Under Dunwich

A record of Dunwich, the medieval Suffolk port swallowed by the sea, and the enduring claim that its church bells can still be heard tolling beneath the waves during storms.

The Serpent at the Chart's Edge

A journal account of Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent of Norse myth, whose coils were said to ring the inhabited world and whose shadow lingers at the margins of old sea-charts.
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