The peat-fire flame : folk-tales and traditions of the Highlands & Islands

400 Pages·2009·16.26 MB·English

I
ItlACGReGOR
THIS is a comprehensive collection of 0/^. 317
the best folk-tales of the Highlands
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 under-
taken. He has been a collector all his
life and. Highland born, familiar with
Gaelic since he could speak. With the
passing years the sources for oral col-
lection of these old tales are becoming
fewer and less accessible and as there
has 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 reproduc-
tionsfromtheAuthor^sownphotographs.

THE PEAT-FIRE FLAME
!
By the Same Author:
SOMEWHERE IN SCOTLAND.
THE HAUNTED ISLES.
SEARCHING THE HEBRIDES WITH A CAMERA.
OVER THE SEA TO SKYE.
A LAST VOYAGE TO ST. KILDA.
BEHOLD THE HEBRIDES
WILD DRUMALBAIN THE ROAD TO MEGGERNIE
:
AND GLEN COE.
SUMMER DAYS AMONG THE WESTERN ISLES.
HEBRIDEAN SEA PIECES.
ETC., ETC.
THE PEAT-FIRE FLAME
FOLK-TALES AND TRADITIONS OF THE
HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS
By
Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
(Author of Summer Days among the Western Isles;
Somezvhere in Scotland; &c.)
With 56 Illustrations
from Photographs
by the Author.
THE MORAY PRESS
EDINBURGH & LONDON
FIRST PUBLISHF.D It
THE MORAY TRESS
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182 HIGH HOLBOKN, LONDON, W.C.I
PRINTED IN SCOTLAND
BY THE DUNEDIN PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
AND BOUND BY
WILLIAM HUNTER & SONS, EDINBURGH
FOR
GRANT & MURRAY LIMITED
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