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Tag results: Folklore

Cheape, Hugh "Margaret Fay Shaw Campbell, 1903-2004" , in Review of Scottish Culture, vol.18 (2006) More details ...
Davies, Owen "A Comparative Perspective on Scottish Cunning-folk and Charmers" , in Lauren Martin, Julian Goodare, and Miller., Joyce edd. Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland. (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008) More details ...
Hall, Alaric "'Getting shot of elves: healing, witchcraft and fairies in Scottish witchcraft trials" , in Folklore, vol.116 (2005) More details ...
Henderson, LizanneEdward J., Cowan, in Scottish Fairy Belief: A History. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2001) More details ...
Lyle, Emily, in Fairies and Folk: Approaches to the Scottish Ballad Tradition (2010) More details ...
Mac Giolla Leith, C. "From Saga to Folktale: 'The Deirdre Story' in Gaelic Tradition" , in McClure, J.D. and Spiller., M.R.G. edd. Bryght Lanternis: Essays on the Language and Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland. (Aberdeen UP, Aberdeen, 1989) More details ...
MacCulloch, J.A. "The mingling of fairy and witch beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century Scotland" , in Folklore, vol.32 (1921) More details ...
Purkiss, Diane "Sounds of silence: fairies and incest in Scottish witchcraft stories" , in Clark. , S. ed. Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture (London, 2001) More details ...
Robertson, SylviaTony Dilworth, eds, in Tales from Highland Perthshire: Collected by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray (Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 2009) More details ...
Simpson, Jacqueline, in Folklore, vol.106 (1995) More details ...
Smith, Michelle "Gendering the Foundation Myths of Scotland in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries" , in O'Neill, P. ed. Celts in Legend and Reality: Papers from the Sixth Celtic Conference, July 2007 (University of Sydney, 2010) More details ...
Wilby, Emma "The witch's familiar and the fairy in early modern England and Scotland" , in Folklore, vol.111 (2000) More details ...
Wilby, Emma, in Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic. (Brighton, 2005) More details ...