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THE MYTHOLOGY &

FOLKLORE OF

SCOTLAND

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A truly unique and wonderful collection of over 130 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time on one USB flash drive packed full of local history and covering all aspects of the MYTHOLOGY & FOLKLORE OF SCOTLAND.

Discover the ancient myths and legends of Scotland, from the borders in the South to the rugged Highlands and scarcely inhabited islands in the North. Study the mythology, folk-lore and fairy tales from all corners of a fascinating country steeped in local history. Study the superstitions, traditions and ancient customs of both peasant and nobleman. Read about the legendary tales and traditional fireside stories that have been passed down from generation to generation since the olden times. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, this is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in Scottish history, local legends, myths and superstitions, and the ancient folk-lore of Scotland. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This superb compilation of 132 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

A Collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, tales, and songs Vol. 1 - J. Gichrist (1815)

A Collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, tales, and songs Vol. 2 - J. Gichrist (1815)

A land of romance,the Border,its history and legend - J. Lang (1910)

A treatise on the language, poetry, and music of the Highland clans with illustrative traditions and anecdotes, and numerous ancient Highland airs by D. Campbell (1862)

An deo-grne - monthly magazine of An Comunn Gaidhealach (1905-06)

Argyll's Highlands, or, MacCailein Mor and the Lords of Lorne with traditionary tales and legends of the County of Argyll - C. Bede (1902)

Bibliographical notes on the witchcraft literature of Scotland - J. Ferguson (1897)

Birds of omen in Shetland - J. Saxby (1893)

Braemar Highlands - Their Tales, Traditions and History by E. Taylor (1869)

Celtic myth and legend, poetry & romance - C. Quire (1910)

Celtic mythology and religion - A. Macbain (1885)

Celtic mythology and religion, with chapters upon Druid circles and Celtic burial - A. MacBain (1917)

Celtic religion in pre-Christian times - E. Anwyl (1906)

Celtic stories - E. Thomas (1911)

Colonsay, one of the Hebrides, its plants their local names and usses - legends, ruins, and place-names - M. McNeill (1910)

Dunblane traditions being a series of warlike and legendary narratives, biographical sketches of eccentric characters, etc. - J. Monteath (1887)

Early Scottish metrical tales - D. Laing (1889)

Examples of printed folk-lore concerning the Orkney & Shetland islands - G. F. Black (1903)

Fingal, an ancient epic poem, in six books together with several other poems, composed by Ossian the son of Fingal - J. Macpherson (1762)

Folk lore in Lowland Scotland - E. B. Simpson (1908)

Folk lore, or, Superstitious beliefs in the west of Scotland within this century - J. Napier (1879)

Folk tales and fairy lore in Gaelic and English collected from oral tradition - J. MacDougall (1910)

Folk-lore and legends - England and Scotland - C. J. Tibbitt (1894)

Folk-lore and legends; Scotland - unknown author (1889)

Folklore of Scottish lochs and springs - J. M. Mackinlay (1893)

Gaelic fairy tales - W. M. Parker (1908)

Gaelic mythology - H. Maclean (1879)

Gille a' bhuidseir - The wizard's gillie, and other tales - J. F. Campbell (1914)

Golspie - contributions to its folklore - E. Nicholson (1897)

Highland legends - T. Lauder (1880)

Highland legends and fugitive pieces of original poetry, with translations from the Gaelic and vice versa - D. Shaw (1859)

Highland rambles, and long legends to shorten the way Vol. 1 - T. D. Lauder (1837)

Highland rambles, and long legends to shorten the way Vol. 2 - T. D. Lauder (1837)

Historical and traditional tales in prose and verse, connected with the south of Scotland (1843)

Historical tales and legends of Ayrshire - W. Robertson (1889)

Historical tales and legends of the Highlands - A. Mackenzie (1878)

Jacobite melodies - a collection of the most popular legends, ballads and songs of the adherents to the House of Stuart, from 1640 till 1746 (1823)

Kilns, mills, millers, meal and bread - W. Gregor (1894)

Legendary Tales of the Highlands Vol. 1 - T. Lauder (1841)

Legendary Tales of the Highlands Vol. 2 - T. Lauder (1841)

Legendary Tales of the Highlands Vol. 3 - T. Lauder (1841)

Legends and memories of Scotland - C. K. Aitken (1874)

Legends of the isles and highland gatherings - C. Mackay (1857)

Minstrelsy of the Scottish border ... collected in the southern counties of Scotland with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition Vol. 1 - W. Scott (1810)

Minstrelsy of the Scottish border ... collected in the southern counties of Scotland with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition Vol. 2 - W. Scott (1810)

Minstrelsy of the Scottish border ... collected in the southern counties of Scotland with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition Vol. 3 - W. Scott (1810)

Mona miscellany - a selection of proverbs, sayings, ballads, customs, superstitions, and legends, peculiar to the Isle of Man - W. Harrison (1873)

My own fairy book ... with an excerpt from the Annals of Scotland, as touching Ker of Fairnilee, his sojourn with the Queen of Faery - A. Lang (1895)

Myths & legends of the Celtic race - T. W. Rolleston (1911)

Nether Lochaber - the natural history, legends, and folk-lore of the West Highlands - A. Stewart (1883)

North and south of Tweed - stories and legends of the borders - J. Lang (1913)

Notes on the folk-lore of the north-east of Scotland - W. Gregor (1881)

On current British mythology and oral traditions - J. F. Campbell (1870)

Our ancestors, Scots, Piets, & Cymry, and what their traditions tell us - R. C. Maclagan (1913)

Pittencrieff Glen - its antiquities, history, and legends - J. B. Mackie (1903)

Popular rhymes of Scotland - R. Chambers (1870)

Popular tales of the West Highlands Vol. 1 - J. F. Campbell (1860)

Popular tales of the West Highlands Vol. 2 - J. F. Campbell (1860)

Popular tales of the West Highlands Vol. 3 - J. F. Campbell (1860)

Popular tales of the West Highlands Vol. 4 - J. F. Campbell (1860)

Popular traditions of Glasgow - A. Wallace (1880)

Raiderland; all about grey Galloway - its stories, traditions, characters, humours - S. R. Crockett (1904)

Records of Argyll; legends traditions, and recollections of Argyllshire Highlanders, collected chiefly from the Gaelic - A. Campbell (1885)

Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway song with historical and traditional notices relative to the manners and customs of the peasantry - R. H. Cromek (1810)

Romantic narratives from Scottish history and tradition - R. S. Fittis (1903)

Rosg Gaidhlig - specimens of Gaelic prose - W. J. Watson (1915)

Scenes and legends of the north of Scotland - H. Miller (1835)

Scottish anecdotes and tales - W. Grant (1885)

Scottish fairy and folk tales - G. B. Douglas (1900)

Scottish ghost stories - E. O'Donnell (1911)

Scottish journal of topography, antiquities, traditions, etc. Vols. 1 & 2 (1847)

Scottish myths; notes on Scottish history and tradition - R. C. Maclagan (1882)

Shetland fireside tales, or, The hermit of Trosswickness - G. Stewart (1892)

Superstitions of the highlands & islands of Scotland - J. G. Campbell (1900)

Survivals in belief among the Celts - G. Henderson (1911)

Sutherland and the Reay country history, antiquities, folklore, topography, regiments, ecclesiastical records, poetry and music, etc. - A. Gunn (1897)

Tales and traditions of Ayrshire and Galloway - A. Glass (1873)

Tales of the Highlands - T. Lauder (1881)

Tales of the Scottish peasantry - A. Bethune (1884)

The book of Arran - History & Folklore - J. A. Balfour (1910)

The Book of Elves and Fairies - J. O. Frances (1918)

The Borderer's table book; or, Gatherings of the local history and romance of the English and Scottish Border Vol. 3 - M. A. Richardson (1846)

The Borderer's table book; or, Gatherings of the local history and romance of the English and Scottish Border Vol. 5 - M. A. Richardson (1846)

The Borderer's table book; or, Gatherings of the local history and romance of the English and Scottish Border Vol. 7 - M. A. Richardson (1846)

The folk-lore of the Isle of Man - being an account of its myths, legends, superstitions, customs, & proverbs - A. W. Moore (1891)

The hereditary sheriffs of Galloway ; their forebears and friends ... with notes of the early history, ecclesiastical legends, etc. Vol. 1 - A. Agnew (1893)

The hereditary sheriffs of Galloway ; their forebears and friends ... with notes of the early history, ecclesiastical legends, etc. Vol. 2 - A. Agnew (1893)

The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns - A. Jervise (1882)

The Jacobite Relics of Scotland Being the Songs, Airs, and Legends, of the adherents to the house of Stuart - J. Hogg (1819)

The knights of England, France, and Scotland - H. W. Herbert (1852)

The laird of Logan, or, Anecdotes and tales illustrative of the wit and humour of Scotland - D. Robertson (1889)

The language and literature of the Scottish Highlands - J. S. Blackie (1876)

The legendary ballads of England and Scotland - J. S. Roberts (1868)

The legends of SS. Ninian and Machor, from an unique ms. in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century (1904)

The literature of the Highlanders - N. MacNeill (1892)

The mythology and rites of the British druids, ascertained by national documents - E. Davies (1809)

The mythology of ancient Britain and Ireland - C. Squire (1909)

The mythology of the British Islands - C. Squire (1905)

The Perth incident of 1396 from a folk-lore point of view - R. C. Maclagan (1905)

The poems of Ossian - J. Macpherson (1885)

The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland by W. G. Stewart (1823)

The religion of the ancient Celts - J. A. Macculloch (1911)

The Scottish fairy book - E. W. Grierson (1918)

The vale of Strathmore; its scenes and legends - J. C. Guthrie (1875)

The washer of the ford, and other legendary moralities - F. Macleod (1896)

Traditional tales of the English and Scottish peasantry Vol. 1 - A. Cunningham (1822)

Traditional tales of the English and Scottish peasantry Vol. 2 - A. Cunningham (1822)

Traditions of Edinburgh - R. Chambers (1912)

Traditions of Edinburgh Vol. 2 - R. Chambers (1825)

'Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe - the natural history, legends, and folk-lore of the West Highlands - A. Stewart (1885)

Unique traditions chiefly of the west and south of Scotland - J. G. Barbour (1886)

Upper Annandale - its history and traditions - A. Marchbank (1901)

Waifs and strays of Celtic tradition Vol. 1 - Craignish tales - A. Campbell (1895)

Waifs and strays of Celtic tradition Vol. 2 - Folk & hero tales from Argyllshire, Gaelic & English Pt. 1 - D. MacInnes (1889)

Waifs and strays of Celtic tradition Vol. 3 - Folk & hero tales from Argyllshire, Gaelic & English Pt. 2 - J. Macdougall (1889)

Waifs and strays of Celtic tradition Vol. 4 - The Fians - J. G. Campbell (1895)

Waifs and strays of Celtic tradition Vol. 5 - Clan traditions and popular tales of the western Highlands and islands - J. G. Campbell (1895)

Ward & Lock's descriptive and pictorial guide to the Isle of Man - towns, mountains, glens, waterfalls, legends, romantic associations, and history (1883)

Weird tales - Scottish (1888)

Wild sports of the west - with legendary tales and local sketches Vol. 1 - W. H. Maxwell (1883)

Wild sports of the west - with legendary tales and local sketches Vol. 2 - W. H. Maxwell (1883)

Wilson's tales of the borders, and of Scotland Vols. 1 – 7, 11 & 12 - J. M. Wilson (1857)

Wonder tales from Scottish myth & legend - D. A. Mackenzie (1917)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in Scottish myths, legends, folklore and the local history and superstitions of Scotland and the magical Highlands – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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