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| Author | : George W. Macpherson |
| Publisher | : Luath Storyteller |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004-06 |
| Genre | : Celts |
| ISBN | : 9781842820643 |
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.
| Author | : Otta F. Swire |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 1963 |
| Genre | : Folklore |
| ISBN | : |
History, folklore and local myths of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland counties in Scotland.
| Author | : Anne Ross |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| 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 | : Isabel Cooper |
| Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2013-12-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1402284683 |
She wasn't looking to claim the heart of a dragon, but when this bluestocking goes toe-to-toe with a brooding, broken Highland warrior, she'll find just how easy it is for him to make her burn. In Victorian England, gossip is often as precious as gold. But the Highlanders are a more mysterious bunch—and if anyone found out what Stephen MacAlasdair really was, he'd be hunted down, murdered, his clan wiped out. As he's called to London on business, he'll have to be extra vigilant?especially between sunset and the appearance of the first evening star. Mina just wanted to find out more about the arrogant man who showed up in her employer's office. She never thought the stranger would turn into a dragon right in front of her. Or that he'd then offer her an outrageous sum of money to serve as his personal secretary. Working together night and day to track a twisted monster, Mina will come to see a man in love is more powerful and determined than any dragon.
| Author | : Otta F. Swire |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2018-09-27 |
| Genre | : Legends |
| ISBN | : 9781912476336 |
Features tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shape- shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand and shells which fall from their hair. This work takes us far beyond Christian times to the edge of the Iron Age.
| Author | : Stephanie Burt Williams |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 87 |
| Release | : 2012-08-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1625844107 |
The author of Wicked Charlotte roots out the spirited secrets of two small towns deep in the Appalachian Mountains. When the sun slips behind the trees and shadows lengthen near dusk, the mountains and valleys of Highlands and Cashiers whisper their tales of lost loves, deals gone bad, and ghosts who walk the night. This tourist destination is rich in folklore and legend—from rumors of a magical mountain volcano to the ghost of a white owl. Learn the stories and firsthand accounts of hauntings and the hard to explain. Listen to the voices winding through the hemlocks, or is it just the wind? Includes photos!
| Author | : Gillian Gillison |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1993-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780226293806 |
The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of the first woman or man, as if one sex or the other were guilty of the very first misdeed. Working for years among the Gimi, speaking their language, anthropologist Gillian Gillison gained rare insight into these myths and their pervasive influence in the organization of social life. Hers is a fascinating account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms. Gillison shows how the themes expressed in Gimi myths—especially sexual hostility and an obsession with menstrual blood—are dramatized in the elaborate public rituals that accompany marriage, death, and other life crises. The separate myths of Gimi women and men seem to speak to one another, to protest, alter, and enlarge upon myths of the other sex. The sexes cast blame in the veiled imagery of myth and then play out their debate in joint rituals, cooperating in shows of conflict and resolution that leave men undefeated and accord women the greater blame for misfortune.
| Author | : Donald Omand |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Caithness (Scotland) |
| ISBN | : 9781871704167 |
| Author | : Alistair Moffat |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-05-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0500290849 |
“A brisk and accessible guide to a thousand years of reiving and rivalry in the Highlands.” —The Scotsman The story of the Highland clans of Scotland is famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to ancient traditions of family, loyalty, and valor for centuries, the clans met the beginning of their end at the fateful Battle of Culloden in 1746. Alistair Moffat traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans; from Somerled the Viking to Robert the Bruce; from the great battles of Bannockburn and Flodden to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Risings; and from the Clearances to the present day. Moffat is an adept guide to the world of the clans, a world dominated by lineage, land, and community. These are stories of great leaders and famous battles, and of an extraordinary people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. It’s a story too about the pain of leaving, with the great emigrations to the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand that began after Culloden. Complete with a clan map and an alphabetical list of the clans of the Scottish Highlands, this is a must for anyone interested in the history of Scotland.
