Cultural Resources
Scottish Folktales
Prefatory Note
The distinctive features of Scotch Folk-lore are such as might have been expected from a consideration of the characteristics of Scotch scenery. The rugged grandeur of the mountain, the solemn influence of the widespreading moor, the dark face of the deep mountain loch, the babbling of the little stream, seem all to be reflected in the popular tales and superstitions. The acquaintance with nature in a severe, grand, and somewhat terrible form must necessarily have its effect on the human mind, and the Scotch mind and character bear the impress of their natural surroundings. The fairies, the brownies, the bogles of Scotland are the same beings as those with whom the Irish have peopled the hills, the nooks, and the streams of their land, yet how different, how distinguished from their counterparts, how clothed, as it were, in the national dress!
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.
