Scottish Folk Tales

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Scottish Folk Tales
Author Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator William Stobbs
Cover artist William Stobbs
Country Great Britain
Language English
Genre(s) Fairy Tales
Publisher Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Publication date 1976
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 128 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-416-82580-X

Scottish Folk Tales is a 1976 anthology of 18 fairy tales from Scotland that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. In the foreword, the author writes, "[T]hey are age-old stories, and come from various parts of Scotland." Some of the tales, she continues, come from John o' Groats, the Orkney Islands and the Border country, among other areas.

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  • Foreword
  • 1. My own self
  • 2. The Laird of Co
  • 3. The shadow
  • 4. The wee bit mousikie
  • 5. Green caps
  • 6. The Well at the World's End
  • 7. The seal-wife
  • 8. The little wee man
  • 9. The Black Bull of Norroway
  • 10. Whirra whirra bump!
  • 11. Mester Stoorworm
  • 12. Flitting
  • 13. The Loch Ness Kelpie
  • 14. Short Hoggers
  • 15. Seven Inches
  • 16. In a sack
  • 17. The seal-hunter and the mermen
  • 18. The Strange Visitor
  • Note: Inconsistencies in the capitalization of various title words are correct, per the book's contents page.

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