WONDER TALES FROM SCOTTISH MYTH AND LEGEND - 16 Wonder tales from Scottish Lore and LegendAbela Publishing Ltd, 2018 M08 31 - 241 páginas The myths and legends of Scotland are full of what is called "local colour". They afford us not only glimpses of ancient times and of old habits of thought and life, but also of the country itself at different times of the year. Stories like that of Beira and the Bride of Spring. Because so many old stories were passed on orally by storytellers, with the advent of the industrial revolution printed books became more common and these stories became “lost” as less attended the once popular storytelling sessions. Then in 1870 the UK Education Act undertook to teach all children how to read and the art of storytelling all but died out altogether. However in this volume, Donald Mackenzie has saved 16 of these precious remnants of old Scotland and put them into print for us. The stories in this volume are: The old people believed that somewhere to the West of Scotland, the spirit of Spring had its hiding-place, and they imagined this hiding-place to be a green floating island on which the sun always shone and flowers were always blooming. During the reign of Beira, Queen of Winter, the spirit of Spring, they thought, was always trying to visit Scotland, and they imagined that Beira raised the storms of January and February to prolong her reign by keeping the grass from growing. This volume is sure to keep you enchanted for hours, if only not because of the content, but because of their quality, and will have you and your young wards coming back for more. |
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... woman, and the story of her exploits is the story of the weather conditions in winter and early spring. She rouses the dangerous whirlpool of Corryvreckan, she brings the snow, she unlooses the torrents that cause rivers to overflow ...
... woman whose stories would have filled a volume quite as large as this one. Some of the poems collected by the Dean of Lismore in the sixteenth century were still repeated about a generation ago, almost word for word, by old reciters in ...
... evil eye":-- The eye that went over, And came back, That reached the bone, And reached the marrow, I will lift from off thee--. 1Dr. A. Carmichael's Carmina Gadelica, Vol. I, p. 169. 1 The old Scottish name for a woman's cap.
... woman who acts as a nurse to a fairy child sees the spirits of the dead cutting corn. In Egypt it was believed that the dead were thus employed in the Paradise of Osiris, who was, among other things, a corn god. The gods and goddesses ...
... great dun-coloured shawl, which was drawn closely round her shoulders. 3. o BEIRA It is told that in the days. 1 The old Scottish name for a woman's cap. 1Pronounced Foo'ar. The Anglo-Irish rendering is "Fomorian", but the Irish.
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COMBATS THAT NEVEREND IV THE PRINCESS OF LANDUNDERWAVES | |
NIMBLE MEN BLUE MEN AND GREEN LADIES VI CONALL AND THE THUNDER | |
STORY OF FINLAY AND THE GIANTS | |
HEROES ON THE GREEN ISLE IX A VISION OF THE DEAD X THE STORY OF MICHAEL SCOTT XI IN THE KINGDOM OF SEALS XII STO... | |
THE MAIDOFTHEWAVE | |
EXILES FROM FAIRYLAND | |
FRIENDS AND FOES OF | |
THE LAND OF GREEN MOUNTAINS | |