Highland Folk Tales
Highland Folk Tales

Author: Bob Pegg

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0752478176

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The Highlands of Scotland are rich in traditional stories. Even today, in the modern world of internet and supermarkets, old legends dating as far back as the times of the Gaels, Picts and Vikings are still told at night around the fireside. They are tales of the sidh – the fairy people – and their homes in the green hills; of great and gory battles, and of encounters with the last wolves in Britain; of solitary ghosts, and of supernatural creatures like the sinister waterhorse, the mermaid, and the Fuath , Scotland’s own Bigfoot. In a vivid journey through the Highland landscape, from the towns and villages to the remotest places, by mountains, cliffs, peatland and glen, storyteller and folklorist Bob Pegg takes the reader along old and new roads to places where legend and landscape are inseparably linked.

Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands

Author: Anne Ross

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780752419046

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The folklore of the Scottish Highlands is unique and very much alive. Dr Anne Ross is a Gaelic-speaking scholar and archaeologist who has lived and worked in crofting communities. This has enabled her to collect information at first hand and to assess the veracity of material already published. In this substantially revised edition of a classic work first published 30 years ago, she portrays the beliefs and customs of Scottish Gaelic society, including: seasonal customs deriving from Celtic festivals; the famous waulking songs; the Highland tradition of seers and second sight; omens and taboos, both good and bad; and, chilling experiences of witchcraft and the Evil Eye Rituals associated with birth and death. Having taken her MA, MA Hons and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Anne Ross became Research Fellow in the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh. She then rapidly established herself as one of Britain's leading Celtic scholars. Her seminal work is "Pagan Celtic Britain" and she has also published "Druids - Preachers of Immortality" with Tempus Publishing.

Highland Folk Tales
Highland Folk Tales

Author: Bob Pegg

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0752478176

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The Highlands of Scotland are rich in traditional stories. Even today, in the modern world of internet and supermarkets, old legends dating as far back as the times of the Gaels, Picts and Vikings are still told at night around the fireside. They are tales of the sidh – the fairy people – and their homes in the green hills; of great and gory battles, and of encounters with the last wolves in Britain; of solitary ghosts, and of supernatural creatures like the sinister waterhorse, the mermaid, and the Fuath , Scotland’s own Bigfoot. In a vivid journey through the Highland landscape, from the towns and villages to the remotest places, by mountains, cliffs, peatland and glen, storyteller and folklorist Bob Pegg takes the reader along old and new roads to places where legend and landscape are inseparably linked.

Fairy Tales from Scotland
Fairy Tales from Scotland

Author:

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780192750129

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Thirty-two folk tales from Scotland, including Tam Lin, The Faery and the Kettle, and How Fionn Found his Sword.

Orkney Folk Tales
Orkney Folk Tales

Author: Tom Muir

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0750955333

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The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.

Highland Folk Ways
Highland Folk Ways

Author: I. F. Grant

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-27

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781912476305

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This book explores pre-clan history, the formation of clans, the geography of the settlements and the development of farming techniquesand crofting

Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend
Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend

Author: Donald Alexander Mackenzie

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780486296777

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Sixteen lively tales tell of giants rumbling down mountainsides, of a magic wand that turns stone pillars into warriors, of gods and goddesses, evil hags, powerful forces, and more.