Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales (Collector’s Editions) (Hardback)

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Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales gathers stories shaped by long nights, thin borders, and a landscape where the ordinary and the uncanny exist side by side. These are tales born of peat smoke and shoreline mist, alive with bogies and witches, kelpies waiting in dark water, and the quiet danger of the sith who move unseen at dusk.

Across glens, islands, and small settlements, animals speak with unsettling authority, prophecies surface at the wrong moment, and generosity is rarely without consequence. Mischief runs close to menace, and kindness is often tested rather than rewarded. The supernatural here is not decorative but woven into daily life, as familiar as weather and as difficult to escape.

Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales preserves the strangeness and moral sharpness of these traditions, offering stories that resist neat endings. Accompanied by a new introduction and a helpful glossary, this collection invites readers to linger in a world where enchantment is never harmless and the past still breathes close to the present.