Scottish Folk Tales

Scottish Folk Tales

infobox Book |
name = Scottish Folk Tales
title_orig =
translator =
author = Ruth Manning-Sanders
cover_artist = William Stobbs
illustrator = William Stobbs
country = Great Britain
language = English
series =
genre = Fairy Tales
publisher = Methuen & Co. Ltd.
release_date = 1976
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 128 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-416-82580-X

Scottish Folk Tales is a 1976 anthology of 18 fairy tales from Scotland that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. In the foreword, the author writes, " [T] hey are age-old stories, and come from various parts of Scotland." Some of the tales, she continues, come from John o' Groats, the Orkney Islands and the Border country, among other areas.

Table of contents

*Foreword
*1. My own self
*2. The Laird of Co
*3. The shadow
*4. The wee bit mousikie
*5. Green caps
*6. The Well at the World's End
*7. The seal-wife
*8. The little wee man
*9. The Black Bull of Norroway
*10. "Whirra whirra bump!"
*11. Mester Stoorworm
*12. Flitting
*13. The Loch Ness Kelpie
*14. Short Hoggers
*15. Seven Inches
*16. In a sack
*17. The seal-hunter and the mermen
*18. The Strange Visitor

*"Note: Inconsistencies in the capitalization of various title words are correct, per the book's contents page."

ee also

*Kelpie
*Merman
*Loch Ness
*Fairy
*Selkie
*Sea serpent
*Brownie


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