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The Scottish Fairy Book
by Elizabeth W. GRIERSON (1869 - 1943)The Fairies of Merlin's Crag
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious region under the sea, "far below the abode of fishes," where the Mermaids and Mermen live. There are stories of the Brownie, magical animal tales where the animals are endowed with the power of speech, tales of enchantment, and legendary stories, half real, half mythical. The author has tried to make a representative collection from these different classes of Scottish Folklore, choosing the tales that are the least well known. - Summary by Nan Dodge, taken from the introduction.
Listen next episodes of The Scottish Fairy Book:
Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm , Birthdays , Canonbie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoune , Farquhar MacNeill , Katherine Crackernuts , Peerifool , Poussie Baudrons , The Brownie o' Ferne-Den , The Draiglin' Hogney , The Dwarfie Stone , The Fox and the Wolf , The Laird o' Co' , The Milk-White Doo , The Wedding of Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren , The Well o' the World's End , The Witch of Fife , Times to Sneeze