The Peat Fire Flame - Folk-tales and Traditions of the Highlands & Islands (gnv64)

The Peat Fire Flame: Folk-tales and Traditions of the Highlands & Islands
by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
The Moray Press | 1937 | ISBN: N/A | converted PDF | xx + 339 pages | 18.9 mb
http://www.amazon.com/peat-fire-flame-Folk-tales-traditions-Highlands/dp/B00085HVL8

This is a comprehensive collection of the best folk-tales of the Hi1hlanch and Islands of Scotland. Many of these tales have been collected orally by the author and appear now in print for the first time. In the outlying parts of the Hebrides where only Gaelic: is spoken by the older inhabitants these tales could only be collected by one who is familiar with the language. and the Author is well qualified for the task he has undertaken. He has been a collector all his life and, Highland born, familiar with Gaelic: sinc:e he could speak. With the passinc years the sources for oral collection of these old tales are bec:ominc fewer and less accessible and as there ha. been a growing interest in Celtic literature and Celtic music in recent years the time would seem ripe for a new one-volume collection of folk tales. The book is illustrated with reproductions from the Author's own photographs.

CONTENTS
I. Faeries: Their Properties and Activities 1
II. Faery Music 29
III. Faery Dogs and Faery Cattle 37
IV. The Brownie 44
V. The Claistig 59
VI. The Water-Horsc and Kindred Monsters 67
VII. The Spirit-Multitude . 88
VIII. The Seal-Folk 95
IX. Storm-Kelpies 116
X. Bird Lore . 122
XI. Animal Lore 131
XII. Well Lore .144
XIII. Bell Lore 157
XIV. Cave Lore 167
XV. The Lore of Kirk and Kirkvard 178
XVI. Folk-Tales of the Bow and Arrow 191
XVII. Rievers' and Caterans' Tales 200
XIII. Folk-Tales of Doughty Men and Doughty Deeds 213
XIX. Folk-Tales of Highland Hospitality 237
XX. Norse and Viking Folk-Tales 247
XXI. Witch Tales and the Evil Eye 262
XXIl. Ghost Tales and Haunted Places 282
XXlll. Folk-Talcs of the '15 and the '45 312
Glossary 329
Index 331