Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
by Gordon Jarvie (Editor)
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'Now chap off my head, my hinnie, my heart, Now chap off my head, my ain true love'A nation rich with superstitions and storytellers, Scotland has a grand tradition of folk and fairy tales, and this collection provides an insight into the curses, blessings and creatures - both widely recognisable and peculiarly Scottish - that populate it. It includes the great Scottish writers and collectors of fables, from Robert Burns' supernatural masterpiece 'Tam o' Shanter' in which a man interrupts a show more midnight dance of witches; Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Through the Veil', a glimpse across lives previously lived; and the classic Victorian fairy tale 'The Gold of Fairnilee' in which fairies are both an excuse for cowardice and a real, sometimes sinister presence; as well as tales by John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson and James Hogg, among others. This volume includes an introduction on the history of folk tales in Scotland and the superstitions surrounding them, and notes on the authors. show lessTags
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A lovely collection, especially the ones that are written in Scottish English and treat the Scots-speaking characters like any others - I could hear the accents in my head. Some of the later ones are by Victorians writing in self-consciously English English who in places treat Scots as a curiosity - these are annoying at times.
Enjoyable tales that (IMO) rank up there with the classic Brothers Grimm tales we're all told.
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- Canonical title
- Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
- Original publication date
- 1992
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- Genre
- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 398.209411 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature History, geographic treatment, biography European folktales Folklore of the British Isles (other than England) Folklore of Scotland
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- GR144 .S366 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Folklore Folklore By region or country
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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