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The Highlands of Scotland are rich in traditional stories. Even today, in the modern world of the internet and supermarkets, old legends dating as far back as the times of the Gaels, Picts and Vikings are still told at night around the fireside.
They are tales of the daoine sìth - the fairy people - and their homes in the green hills; of great and gory battles; of encounters with the last wolves in Britain; of solitary ghosts; and of supernatural creatures like the selkie, the mermaid, and the Fuath, Scotland's own Bigfoot.
In a vivid journey through the Highland landscape, from the towns and villages to the remotest places, by mountains, cliffs, peatland and glen, storyteller and folklorist Bob Pegg takes the reader along old and new roads to places where legend and landscape are inseparably linked.
Contents
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Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Wood and Water
A Great Glen Gallimaufry
Bogles, Big Fellows and a Blacksmith
Travels and Travails
Waifs and Strays
Stories in Stone
Miller's World of Wonders
Saints and Sorcery
The Wild East
Hidden Kingdoms, Magic Lands
Afterword
Guide to Gaelic Pronunciation
