Cultural Resources
Fairy Land by Howard David Johnson. This image is available as a poster.
Scottish Folktales
by Anonymous (1889)
Originally published as Folk-lore and Legends Scotland
The folktales in this collection come from Folk-lore and Legends Scotland, published by W. W. Gibbings, 18 BURY ST., LONDON, 1889.
Contents:
- Prefatory Note
- Canobie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoun
- Coinnach Oer
- Elphin Irving
- The Ghosts of Craig-Aulnaic
- The Doomed Rider
- Whippety Stourie
- The Weird of the Three Arrows
- The Laird of Balmachie’s Wife
- Michael Scott
- The Minister and the Fairy
- The Fisherman and the Merman
- The Laird O’ Co’
- Ewen of the Little Head
- Jock and His Mother
- Saint Columba
- The Mermaid Wife
- The Fiddler and the Bogle of Bogandoran
- Thomas the Rhymer
- Fairy Friends
- The Seal-Catcher’s Adventure
- The Fairies of Merlin’s Craig
- Rory Macgillivray
- The Haunted Ships
- The Brownie
- Mauns’ Stane
- Horse and Hattock
- Secret Commonwealth
- The Fairy Boy of Leith
- The Dracæ
- Lord Tarbat’s Relations
- The Bogle
- Daoine Shie, or the Men of Peace
- The Death Bree
Many fine collections of Scottish folktales, fairy tales, and myths have been published over the years. An assortment of some of our favorites are available as new or used copies. Your purchase will help support the non-profit activitites of Compass Rose Cultural Crossroads.
You are free to use the folktales and legends in this online collection on your own Web site as long as you credit Compass Rose Cultural Crossroads as the source and provide a link to our Web site: http://www.compassrose.org.
