Author: Ronald Macdonald RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Selected Highland folk tales
Author: Ronald Macdonald RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Selected Highland Folktales
Author: Ronald Macdonald RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780946537792
Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Selected Highland Folk Tales
Author: Ronald Macdonald RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Selected Highland Folk Tales
Author: Ronald Macdonald RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Selected Highland Folk Tales. Gathered Orally by R.M. Robertson. Edited by Jeremy Bruce-Watt
Author: Ronald Macdonald RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
Author: Anne RossPublisher:
ISBN: 9780752419046
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Highland Folk Tales
Author: Bob PeggPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752478176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
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.
Folk Tales of the Highlands
Author: Ian Gregor SmithFolk Tales of the Highlands
Author: Gregor Ian SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780946264230
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore
Author: Juliette WoodPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441166769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Drawing on historical sources, myth and folklore, Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore explores the roles of fantastical beasts - particularly the unicorn, the mermaid, and the dragon - in a series of thematic chapters organised according to their legendary dwelling place, be this land, sea, or air. Through this original approach, Juliette Wood provides the first study of mythical beasts in history from the medieval period to the present day, providing new insights into the ways these creatures continue to define our constantly changing relationship to both real and imagined worlds. It places particular emphasis on the role of the internet, computer games, and the cyberspace community, and in doing so, demonstrates that the core medieval myth surrounding these creatures remains static within the ever-increasing arena of mass marketing and the internet. This is a vital resource for undergraduates studying fantastic creatures in history, literature and media studies.