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Horsieman, The    Horsieman, The
ISBN:9781841586922
Category: Folklore, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Duncan Williamson
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

In this new edition, one of Scotland’s best known storytellers vividly recreates the world of the nomad which has now long since disappeared. Wiliamson provides a refreshing simplicity that contrasts to our modern, technologically-led and increasingly complex lives.


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West Highland Tales    West Highland Tales
ISBN:9781841587035
Category: Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: Fitzroy MacLean
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:
Introducing yet again the 5th reprint of this successful title, this book continues to offer a marvellous introduction to the stories and islands of the West Highlands by one of its most famous authors and personalities.

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Tales of the Morar Highlands    Tales of the Morar Highlands
ISBN:9781841584423
Category: Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: Alasdair Roberts
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Tales of the Morar Highlands is a book packed with extraordinary incident and remarkable characters, from mysterious loch monsters and fugitive princes to lords, priests and smugglers as well as the ordinary people who have made Morar, the ’Highland of the Highlands’ their home for thousands of years.


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Tales Until Dawn    Tales Until Dawn
ISBN:9781841583334
Category: Cultural Studies, Folklore
Author: Joe Neil MacNeil
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

Tales Until Dawn is an extraordinary collection of texts recorded from the lyrical and adept Gaelic speaker Joe Neil MacNeil. Translated by John Shaw, this book truly captures the breadth and richness of the Gaelic speaking community which covers and records many genres and subjects in this comprehensive collection.


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Scottish Traditional Tales    Scottish Traditional Tales
ISBN:9781841582641
Category: Cultural Studies, Fiction, Folklore, Short Stories
Author: (Editors) A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald present an entertaining collection of the oral tales that have been passed down by generations of Scottish storytellers, and have been recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University over the past fifty years.

        
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Tales and Traditions of the Lews    Tales and Traditions of the Lews
ISBN:9781841580555
Category: Scottish History, Folklore
Author: Donald MacDonald
Publication Date: April 2004
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Tales and Traditions of the Lews is a marvellous pot pourri of local history, myth and legend from prehistoric times to the present day; it brings alive the island of Lewis in a way few other histories can.

    
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Highland Folk Ways    Highland Folk Ways
ISBN:9781874744429
Category: Scottish Culture, Folklore
Author: Isabel F. Grant
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors’ lives - the clothes, cooking utensils, weapons, food and the implements for fishing, farming and building are all meticulously depicted and placed in historical context.


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Sidlaws, The    Sidlaws, The
ISBN:9781841830063
Category: Folklore
Author: Maurice Fleming
Publication Date: March 2000
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

The Sidlaws are a low range of hills running from Montrose in the east to Perth in the west. They are a rich source of traditional tales, legends, historical incidents and songs.


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Scottish Life and Society: Oral Literature and Performance Culture    Scottish Life and Society: Oral Literature and Performance Culture
ISBN:9780859766791
Category: Folklore, Ethnology Series, History
Author: (Editors) John Beech, Owen Hand, Mark Mulhern, Jeremy Weston
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: HB
Price: £45.00
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Synopsis:

Volume 10 of the Compendium of Scottish Ethnology brings together a series of essays by a diverse range of authors on the themes of oral literature and performance culture. The topics covered in this volume include: narrative collection and performanc

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Scottish Fairy Belief    Scottish Fairy Belief
ISBN:9781904607588
Category: Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan
Publication Date: January 2007
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Folk Tales of Scotland, The    Folk Tales of Scotland, The
ISBN:9781841586946
Category: Cultural Studies, Folklore
Author: William Montgomerie
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis: These stories are drawn from traditions in all parts of Scotland, for example ‘The Well at the World’s End’ from Islay; ‘The King of Lochlin’s Three Daughters’ from Inveraray; ‘Tam Scott and the Fin-Man’ from Orkney; and ‘The Last of the Picts’ from the Lowlands.

This is the perfect gift for children, for parents wishing to pass on the riches of the Scots tradition to their children, and for overseas relatives and friends.
                   
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Tales From Barra    Tales From Barra
ISBN:9781874744030
Category: Fiction, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: John MacPherson (The Coddy)
Publication Date: April 1992
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis: A warm book of folklore and tales told by one of the most well-known storytellers of the Western Isles.
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Gaelic Otherworld, The    Gaelic Otherworld, The
ISBN:9781841587332
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: John Gregorson Campbell
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

A fantastic volume embracing the supernatural in Gaelic superstition from the mid-nineteenth century.


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Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist    Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist
ISBN:9781841580081
Category: Music, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: Margaret Fay Shaw
Publication Date: January 1999
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis: This marvellous compendium of photographs, stories, traditions and songs has been an established classic since its first publication in 1955.
    
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People of the Wildcat Country    People of the Wildcat Country
ISBN:9781841584485
Category: Cultural Studies, Folklore, Short Stories
Author: Sandra MacPherson
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
Sandra Macpherson’s last book, A Strange and Wild Place, was hugely successful in 2003 and reprinted in 2004. Thisa book contains a delightful variety of tales old and new from Monarch of the Glen country.

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Strange Things    Strange Things
ISBN:9781841584584
Category: Cultural Studies, Folklore
Author: John Lorne Campbell, Trevor H.Hall
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Now reprinted for the first time since 1968, this is a collection of stories about the supernatural, collected in the late 1890s by Fatherr Allan McDonald, parish priest of the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides.    

    
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Reek Roon' the Campfire    Reek Roon' the Campfire
ISBN:9781841587950
Category: Cultural Studies, Folklore
Author: Stanley Robertson
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: A magnificent collection of epic traveller tales full of wonder. There are tales of the supernatural as well as tales of everyday life.
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Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children    Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children
ISBN:9781841588148
Category: Short Stories, Folklore
Author: Duncan Williamson
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: Duncan Williamson was a Scottish traveller who went on to become one of Britain’s master story-tellers. Fireside Tales, his first book, reveals this artistry and mastery in all its glory.
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