POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS Vol. 1

POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS Vol. 1
Author: Anon E Mouse
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1907256024

This second volume of Tales of the West Highlands contains thirty ursgeuln, or tales, fifty riddles plus a few extra stories. As always, these are tales and stories in which something 'Fairy' or magical occurs, something extraordinary --fairies, giants, dwarfs, princes, princesses, kings and queens, speaking animals and the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. But these aren't just a collection of amusing and entertaining stories. Just 20 years after the Elementary Education Act of 1870 these are the tales that were still being used in those far- flung reaches of the Highlands to teach the young the lessons of life. Also included are Seanachas--those old Highland stories which in their telling resemble no others, whose origins are lost in the mists of the Highlands, if not the midst of time. So take some time out and travel back to a period before television and radio, a time when tales were passed on orally-- at the drying kilns, at the communal well or in homes, where families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma or uncle or auntie would delight and captivate the gathering with stories passed on to them from their parents and grandparents from time immemorial. A proportion of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated towards the education of the underprivileged in Scotland.

Popular Tales of the West Highlands

Popular Tales of the West Highlands
Author: J.F. Campbell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2022-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375107234

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS Vol. 2

POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS Vol. 2
Author: J. F. Campbell
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1907256067

This second volume of Tales of the West Highlands contains thirty ursgeuln, or tales, fifty riddles plus a few extra stories. As always, these are tales and stories in which something 'Fairy' or magical occurs, something extraordinary --fairies, giants, dwarfs, princes, princesses, kings and queens, speaking animals and the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. But these aren't just a collection of amusing and entertaining stories. Just 20 years after the Elementary Education Act of 1870 these are the tales that were still being used in those far- flung reaches of the Highlands to teach the young the lessons of life. Also included are Seanachas--those old Highland stories which in their telling resemble no others, whose origins are lost in the mists of the Highlands, if not the midst of time. So take some time out and travel back to a period before television and radio, a time when tales were passed on orally-- at the drying kilns, at the communal well or in homes, where families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma or uncle or auntie would delight and captivate the gathering with stories passed on to them from their parents and grandparents from time immemorial. A proportion of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated towards the education of the underprivileged in Scotland.