Scottish Fairy Tales

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Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Sir George Douglas, Bart. (1900) (pdf)

Nursery Stories

• The Story of the White Pet
• The Milk-White Doo
• Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren
• Stories about the Fox

• The Battle of the Birds
• The Sea-Maiden
• Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm
• Sawney Bean

• The Pechs
• The Worme of Linton
• The Legend of Linton Church
• Thomas the Rhymer
• Michael Scott
• The Ghost that Danced at Jethart
• The Tale of Sir James Ramsay of Bamff
• The Lee Penny
• Boasting Punished
• The Craig Liath Mhor
• Fiddler's Well

Celtic Tales
Told to the Children by Louey Chisholm with Pictures by Katherine Cameron

One of my friends tells me that you, little reader, will not like these old, old tales; another says they are too sad for you, and yet another asks what the stories are meant to teach.

Now I, for my part, think you will like these Celtic Tales very much indeed. It is true they are sad, but you do not always want to be amused. And I have not told the stories for the sake of anything they may teach, but because of their sheer beauty, and I expect you to enjoy them as hundreds and hundreds of Irish and Scottish children have already enjoyed them—without knowing or wondering why.

LOUEY CHISHOLM.

Download Celtic Tales here in pdf format

• The Fairies of Scotland
• The Fairy and the Miller's Wife
• Sir Godfrey MacCulloch
• The Isle of Pabaidh
• Water Fairies
• The Poor Man of Peatlaw
• Mind the Crooked Finger
• The Smith and the Fairies
• Redemption from Fairy Land
• Thom and Willie

• The Laird o' Co'.
• Habitrot
• The Tulman
• Sanntraigh
• Fairy Transportation
• The Fairy Boy of Leith
• The two young Ploughmen
• The Lothian Farmer's Wife
• The Fairy and the Bible Reader
• The Gloaming Bucht

• The Scottish Brownie
• The Brownie and the Thievish Maids
• The Doomed Rider
• The Fisherman and the Merman
• The Seal-Catchers Adventure
• The Young Laird of Lorntie
• The Two Shepherds

• The Brownie of Bodsbeck
• The Bogle
• Graham of Morphie
• The Mermaid Wife
• The Mermaid of Knockdolion
• Nuckelavee
• Fatlips

Witchcraft

• MacGillichallum of Razay
• The Blacksmith's Wife of Yarrowfoot
• Ronaldson of Bowden
• Laird Harry Gilles
• The Witches of Delnabo

• The Witch of Laggan
• The Miller of Holdean
• The Farmer's Wife of Deloraine
• The Missing Web

Apparitions, Wraiths, The Second Sight

• The Old Lady of Littledean
• Prince Charlie's Cave
• The Thurso Merchants Wraith
• A Wedding Frustrated
• The Whinger
• The Winding Sheet
• Phantom Funerals

• The Spectre Piper
• Adam Bell
• Buried Treasure Discovered
• The Straw-Rope Garters
• The Herring-Curer's Vision
• Apparition of a Corpse
• The Death Portent

Comic Tales

• The Wee Bunnock
• Lothian Tom
• The Witty Exploits of Mr. George Buchanan, The Kings Fool.

• The Tale of the Shifty Lad, the Widow's Son
• The Ploughman's Glory; or Tom's Song

Literary Tales

• The Haunted Ships
• Cousin Mattie

• Elphin Irving
• Rat Hall

Children's Stories

• Children's Stories from Margo Fallis
• Pixies, Tiddlywinks and Bumblebee Bread
• When Santa Cried
• Stories from Gemma Howe
• Scottish Stories for Young Readers
• The Eskdale Herd Boy (pdf)
• Steve Young (pdf)
• A Little Book of Christmas
  By John Kendrick Bangs (1912) (pdf)
• The Gold Thread and Wee Davie
  By Norman MacLeod (pdf)
• Fergus Morton
  A Story of a Scottish Boy by J. R. MacDuff. (1869) (pdf)
• The Boy Travellers in Great Britain and Ireland
  Adventures of two youths in a journey through Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England, with visits to the Hebrides and the Isle of Man by Thomas W. Knox (1891)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  By Lewis Carroll (1919) (pdf)
• The Child of the Moat
  A Story for Girls. 1557 A.D., by Ian B, Stoughton Holborn (1916) (pdf)

• Strange Tales from Scotland
• Grandfather tells the children the story of the Great Flood
• Excursion to the Orkney Islands
• The High School pupils visit the Royal Observatory
• Elsie Dinsmore (1) (pdf)
• Holidays at Roselands (2) (pdf)
• Elsie's Girlhood (3) (pdf)
• Elsie's Womanhood (4) (pdf)
• Elsie's Motherhood (5) (pdf)
• A Walk in the Hay-Fields (pdf)
• The dog Crusoe: a tale of the western prairies
  by R M Ballantyne (1800) (pdf)
• Little Women
  A novel by Louisa M. Alcott (pdf)
• The Hobbit
  By J. R. R. Tolkien (1937) (pdf)
• Heidi
  By Johanna Spyri, Translated by Elizabeth P. Stork (1919) (pdf)
• The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
  With upwards of four hundred illustrations by Helen Stratton (1899) (pdf)
• Children of Fancy
  Poems by Ian Bernard Stoughton Holborn (1915) (pdf)

Children's Stories in Audio Format (mp3)
Read by Fiona MacKinnon

• Angus the Tartan Goat
• The Sweetie Shop
• The Horrible Haggis

• Roderick, the Highland Bull
• The Loch Ness Monster
• Rock Climbing

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