Selected Highland folk tales
Author | : Ronald Macdonald Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Highlands (Scotland) |
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Author | : Ronald Macdonald Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Highlands (Scotland) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ronald Macdonald Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Folk literature |
ISBN | : 9780946537792 |
Author | : Ronald Macdonald Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Highlands (Scotland) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ronald Macdonald Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Tales |
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Author | : Anne Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9780752419046 |
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 | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752478176 |
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 | : George M. Eberhart |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2002-12-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1576077640 |
A comprehensive guide to cryptozoology—the quest to identify animals that have not been officially catalogued by science and to place these unknown animals into their proper zoological categories. In this fascinating two-volume encyclopedia, author George M. Eberhart provides a comprehensive catalog of nearly 1,000 cryptids—unknown animals usually reported through eyewitness accounts and not yet described by science. Cryptids are the stuff of folklore, hoaxes, and genuine scientific breakthroughs. There are 400 now-classified cryptids once considered either extinct or pure fantasy. The cryptozoologist's job is to strip away the myth, misidentification, and mystery—and separate fact from fiction. Mysterious Creatures covers everything from dinosaurs and the emala-ntouka, an elephant-killing dinosaur-like animal of central Africa, to searches for the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, and other cryptozoological hoaxes. Entries about specific animals include the derivation or meaning of each cryptid's name, its scientific name, variant names, a physical description, behavior, description of tracks, habitat, significant sightings, present status, and possible explanations. Illustrations and photographs accompany many entries. The book also includes resources and references for further information.
Author | : Sir Thomas Dick Lauder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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