Download or read book Legends Folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands written by M. V. Jack and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Lore in Lowland Scotland written by Evelyn Blantyre Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Folklore of the Scottish Highlands written by Anne Ross and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1993 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richness of the folklore of the Highlands of Scotland is due, in part, to the fact that so much of it has been handed down by oral tradition. It is characteristic of the Gaelic spirit: their love of words, their love of nature, and perhaps above all, their love of their homeland. Anne Ross, a Celtic scholar who is also fluent in Gaelic, has lived and worked in the Highlands, which enabled her to collect information first hand and assess the veracity of material already published. In The Folklore of the Scottish Highlands she portrays the beliefs and customs of Scottish Gaelic society including seasonal customs, the famous waulking songs, the Highland belief in seers and second sight, omens and taboos, witchcraft and the Evil Eye, death rituals, and many more Scottish Highland traditions and beliefs. The folklore of the Highlands is unique, fascinating, and as Ann Ross proves, very much alive"--Jacket flap.
Download or read book Legends Folklore of the Scottish Highlands written by Martin Lunghi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folklore of the Scottish Highlands written by Anne Ross and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 231 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.
Download or read book Folk Lore in Lowland Scotland written by Eve Blantyre Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally Published in 1908. Legends and Folklore from the Scottish countryside. CHAPTER I Beltane and the Vanished Races CHAPTER II The Romans and Wells of Water CHAPTER III The Scandinavians CHAPTER IV Fairies CHAPTER V Fishermen's Superstitions CHAPTER VI Flowers and Birds CHAPTER VII Witches and Wizards CHAPTER VIII Fairs, Festivals, and Funerals CHAPTER IX Adages and Omens
Download or read book Highland Legends written by Thomas Dick Sir Lauder and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Highland Legends' is a collection of myths associated with the Scottish Highlands. There are more than a dozen titles featured in this book, with some of them being 'The Legend of the Floating Islet', 'Glengarry's Revenge', 'Milk of the Cows', and 'Scenery of the Findhorn'.
Download or read book The Lore of Scotland written by Sophia Kingshill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland's rich past and varied landscape have inspired an extraordinary array of legends and beliefs, and in The Lore of Scotland Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill bring together many of the finest and most intriguing: stories of heroes and bloody feuds, tales of giants, fairies, and witches, and accounts of local customs and traditions. Their range extends right across the country, from the Borders with their haunting ballads, via Glasgow, site of St Mungo's miracles, to the fateful battlefield of Culloden, and finally to the Shetlands, home of the seal-people. More than simply retelling these stories, The Lore of Scotland explores their origins, showing how and when they arose and investigating what basis - if any - they have in historical fact. In the process, it uncovers the events that inspired Shakespeare's Macbeth, probes the claim that Mary King's Close is the most haunted street in Edinburgh, and examines the surprising truth behind the fame of the MacCrimmons, Skye's unsurpassed bagpipers. Moreover, it reveals how generations of Picts, Vikings, Celtic saints and Presbyterian reformers shaped the myriad tales that still circulate, and, from across the country, it gathers together legends of such renowned figures as Sir William Wallace, St Columba, and the great warrior Fingal. The result is a thrilling journey through Scotland's legendary past and an endlessly fascinating account of the traditions and beliefs that play such an important role in its heritage.
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.
Download or read book The Highlands and Their Legends written by Otta F. Swire and published by Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd. This book was released on 1963 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, folklore and local myths of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland counties in Scotland.
Download or read book Witchcraft Second Sight in the Highlands Islands of Scotland written by John Gregorson Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstitions of the Highlands Islands of Scotland written by John Gregorson Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legends of the Isles and Highland Gatherings 1857 written by Charles MacKay and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Scottish Myths Legends written by Daniel Allison and published by Nielsen ISBN Store. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blue-skinned old woman who made the mountains. Finfolk, seal-people and the Makers of Dreams. Within these pages are the little-known stories of Scotland, collected and retold by an oral storyteller who performs them throughout the world. From folk-tales and local legends to ancient epics, these stories will astonish and delight readers everywhere. Daniel Allison is an acclaimed oral storyteller who performs everywhere from schools and prisons to global festivals. He hosts the House of Legends Podcast and is the author of The Bone Flute, Silverborn, Scottish Myths & Legends and Finn & The Fianna. 'A masterpiece... Celtic myths and legends at their fantastic best. Mythical, flirty, thumpingly violent and divinely nasty!' Jess Smith reviewing Finn & The Fianna 'A tremendous read... no end of dramas, surprises and reversals of fortune... wonderful stuff' Fay Sampson reviewing The Bone Flute 'The best mythology podcast I've heard' House of Legends listener review
Download or read book Folk Lore and Legends Scotland written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The distinctive features of Scotch Folk-lore are such as might have been expected from a consideration of the characteristics of Scotch scenery. The rugged grandeur of the mountain, the solemn influence of the wide spreading moor, the dark face of the deep mountain loch, the babbling of the little stream, all seem to be reflected in the popular tales and superstitions. The acquaintance with nature in a severe, grand, and somewhat terrible form must necessarily have its effect on the human mind, and the Scotch mind and character bear the impress of their natural surroundings. The fairies, the brownies, the bogles of Scotland are the same beings as those with whom the Irish have peopled the hills, the nooks, and the streams of their land, yet how different, how distinguished from their counterparts, how clothed, as it were, in the national dress!" "Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland" is a collection of Scottish legends. Some titles therein included are: 'Canobie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoun', 'Coinnach Oer', 'Elphin Irving', 'The Ghosts of Craig-Aulnaic' and 'The Doomed Rider'.
Download or read book Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland written by Hugh Miller and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Folk lore and Folk Life written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
