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Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 162371933X
A collection of 14 selkie (half-seal half-human creatures) tales from the Orkney and Shetland islands off the northern tip of Scotland which embrace the fantasy, romance and unusual perspective of the Scottish travellers.
Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857909657
No stories were more potent, more engaging, more subtle or profound than these half-animal, half-human tales of the sea. Time and time again listeners enthralled by Duncan Williamson's lore would ask him for the silkie tale. Duncan grew up with the seals, slept nights stranded by the tide in their colonies, heard countless stories from crofters, fishermen and travellers alike about the strange people who were related to the seal; the silkie stories magically link the two worlds, animal and human, sea and land. This new and expanded edition contains twenty-four stories, including thirteen that are previously unpublished, with a new introduction by Linda Williamson which examines the background of the West Highland belief in the seal people. The Land of the Seal People is a work of a master narrator, Scotland's greatest contemporary storyteller. The book is adult fiction of high intellectual and literary standards, and, as Scottish folk tales, suits children and adults alike. From the oral tradition of the West Coast, these stories are a vital part of Scotland's heritage.
Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Tales
ISBN : 0940793997
A collection of 14 selkie (half-seal half-human creatures) tales from the Orkney and Shetland islands off the northern tip of Scotland which embrace the fantasy, romance and unusual perspective of the Scottish travellers.
Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0862413737
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781841951072
David Thomson visited the remote sea coasts of the Scottish Isles and the West of Ireland on journeys in search of the legends of the selchies - mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans. A magical world emerged, in which men are rescued by seals in stormy seas, take seal-women for their wives and have their children suckled by seal-mothers. Mysterious and fascinating, these stories retain their spellbinding charm through Thomson's beautiful prose. The People of the Sea is a timeless and haunting book, rich in rewards and surprises.
Author : Duncan Williamson
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613777050
A collection of Scottish folk tales featuring silkies, the seal people who can take human shape.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015050762916
David Thomson visited the remote sea coasts of the Scottish Isles and the West of Ireland on journeys in search of the legends of the selchies - mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans. A magical world emerged, in which men are rescued by seals in stormy seas, take seal-women for their wives and have their children suckled by seal-mothers. Mysterious and fascinating, these stories retain their spellbinding charm through Thomson's beautiful prose. The People of the Sea is a timeless and haunting book, rich in rewards and surprises.
Author : Ruth Manning-Sanders
Publisher : Methuen Childrens Books
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Tales
ISBN : 0416253903
Folk and fairy tales come from all around the world, but Scottish stories have an age-old atmosphere which sets them apart. The fourteen in this collection are varied and each has at least one classic folk talk ingredient - fairies, ghosts, wizards, sea monsters, frog-princes, mermaids and tiny green men are just some of the characters to be found in these ancient legends.
Author : Jackie Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1910959472
A Welsh fisherman named Ewan falls in love with a selkie--half-woman, half-seal--who spends many years with him and their two children, Ffion and Morlo, before returning to her own people below the waves.
Author : Philip Marsden
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783783014
In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. On the way, he must navigate the west coast of Ireland and the Inner Hebrides. Bearing the full force of the Atlantic, it is a seaboard which is also a mythical frontier, a place as rich in story as anywhere on earth. Through the people he meets and the tales he uncovers, Marsden builds up a haunting picture of these shores - of imaginary islands and the Celtic otherworld, of the ageless draw of the west, of the life of the sea and perennial loss - and the redemptive power of the imagination. Exhilarating and poignant, Marsden's prose has been widely praised. Bringing together themes he has been pursuing for many years, The Summer Isles is an unforgettable account of the search for actual places, invented places, and those places in between that shape the lives of individuals and entire nations.
Author : Sophia Kingshill,The Estate of Jennifer Westwood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409061717
Scotland's rich past and varied landscape have inspired an extraordinary array of legends and beliefs, and in The Lore of Scotland Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill bring together many of the finest and most intriguing: stories of heroes and bloody feuds, tales of giants, fairies, and witches, and accounts of local customs and traditions. Their range extends right across the country, from the Borders with their haunting ballads, via Glasgow, site of St Mungo's miracles, to the fateful battlefield of Culloden, and finally to the Shetlands, home of the seal-people. More than simply retelling these stories, The Lore of Scotland explores their origins, showing how and when they arose and investigating what basis - if any - they have in historical fact. In the process, it uncovers the events that inspired Shakespeare's Macbeth, probes the claim that Mary King's Close is the most haunted street in Edinburgh, and examines the surprising truth behind the fame of the MacCrimmons, Skye's unsurpassed bagpipers. Moreover, it reveals how generations of Picts, Vikings, Celtic saints and Presbyterian reformers shaped the myriad tales that still circulate, and, from across the country, it gathers together legends of such renowned figures as Sir William Wallace, St Columba, and the great warrior Fingal. The result is a thrilling journey through Scotland's legendary past and an endlessly fascinating account of the traditions and beliefs that play such an important role in its heritage.
Author : Kate Riggs
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781640007499
Meet the amazing sea lion! Introduce elementary kids to these marine mammals and their ocean lives. Long bodies, fancy flippers, and thick skin help these sea creatures swim with speed and agility. Readers explore the features, habitats, and behaviors of sea lions, including pup raising and colony life, all with STEM-appropriate text and gorgeous photography. An end folk tale from Japan tells why fishers respect these animals.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Ideals Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0824981189
A story about a white seal named Kotick who learns how to get along in his Arctic environment during his herd's first migration. For elementary grades.
Author : George Douglas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486119786
Treasury of fanciful, picturesque narratives tell of brownies, kelpies, mermen, and other supernatural creatures that assist, annoy, and otherwise meddle in the lives of simple Scottish country folk. A delightful collection of imaginative and entertaining nursery and fairy tales, animal fables, witchcraft lore, and stories with a comic twist.
Author : Berlie Doherty
Publisher : Random House
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781849397995
The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal people, which will she choose - the sea or the land? From the traditional folk-tale of the selkie, award-winning author Berlie Doherty has created her own lyrical and timeless story of a young girl's search for her true identity.
