Highland Folk Tales

Author : Anne Ross
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ISBN 13 : 9780752419046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folklore of the Scottish Highlands written by Anne Ross and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bob Pegg
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752460901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highland Folk Tales written by Bob Pegg and published by History Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published as part of the successful Folk Tales series. Combines well-known legends with previously unpublished stories. Compiled by a popular and well-known local storyteller. 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.

Author : Bob Pegg
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752478176
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highland Folk Tales written by Bob Pegg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Tales of the West Highlands written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George W. Macpherson
Publisher : Luath Storyteller
ISBN 13 : 9781842820643
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Highland Myths and Legends written by George W. Macpherson and published by Luath Storyteller. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of traditional oral stories from Scotland, mainly the Highlands, many never before published. The stories are myths and legends as well as cultural history. They include traditional methods of treating diseases, Druidical customs and rituals, stories of Selkies, shapeshifters, heros, Vikings, faeries, giants and magic.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Tales of the West Highlands written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Macdonald Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Highland folk tales written by Ronald Macdonald Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Francis Campbell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Download or read book Popular Tales of the West Highlands written by John Francis Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486296777
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : J. F. Campbell
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1907256067
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS Vol. 2 written by J. F. Campbell and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Tales of the West Highlands contains thirty ursgeuln, or tales, fifty riddles plus a few extra stories. As always, these are tales and stories in which something 'Fairy' or magical occurs, something extraordinary --fairies, giants, dwarfs, princes, princesses, kings and queens, speaking animals and the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. But these aren't just a collection of amusing and entertaining stories. Just 20 years after the Elementary Education Act of 1870 these are the tales that were still being used in those far- flung reaches of the Highlands to teach the young the lessons of life. Also included are Seanachas--those old Highland stories which in their telling resemble no others, whose origins are lost in the mists of the Highlands, if not the midst of time. So take some time out and travel back to a period before television and radio, a time when tales were passed on orally-- at the drying kilns, at the communal well or in homes, where families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma or uncle or auntie would delight and captivate the gathering with stories passed on to them from their parents and grandparents from time immemorial. A proportion of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated towards the education of the underprivileged in Scotland.