Scottish Folk Tales is a 1976 anthology of 18 fairy tales from Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders

Ruth Manning-Sanders

Ruth Manning-Sanders was a prolific British poet and author who was perhaps best known for her series of children's books in which she collected and retold fairy tales from all over the world. All told, she published more than 90 books during her lifetime. The dust jacket for A Book of Giants...

. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. In the foreword, the author writes, "[T]hey are age-old stories, and come from various parts of Scotland." Some of the tales, she continues, come from John o' Groats

John o' Groats

John o' Groats is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland. Part of the county of Caithness, John o' Groats is popular with tourists because it is usually regarded as the most northerly settlement of mainland Great Britain, although this is not a claim made by the inhabitants...

, Orkney and the Border country

Border Country

Border Country is a novel by Raymond Williams. The book was re-published in December 2005 as one of the first group of titles in the Library of Wales series, having been out of print for several years. Written in English, the novel was first published in 1960.It is set in rural South Wales, close...

, among other areas.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• 1. My own self
  My Own Self
  Me A'an Sel, Ainsel or My Own Self is a Northumbrian fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs. A version of the tale appears in Scottish Folk Tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1137 Self Did It, similar to the encounter between Odysseus and Polyphemus.-Synopsis:A widow lived...
  
  
• 2. The Laird of Co
• 3. The shadow
• 4. The wee bit mousikie
• 5. Green caps
• 6. The Well at the World's End
• 7. The seal-wife
• 8. The little wee man
• 9. The Black Bull of Norroway
  Black Bull of Norroway
  The Black Bull of Norroway is a fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales.The language, including references to bannocks, would indicate a Scottish story teller, in this instance, Kenny Norman Macleod....
  
  
• 10. Whirra whirra bump!
• 11. Mester Stoorworm
• 12. Flitting
• 13. The Loch Ness Kelpie
• 14. Short Hoggers
• 15. Seven Inches
• 16. In a sack
• 17. The seal-hunter and the mermen
• 18. The Strange Visitor

• Note: Inconsistencies in the capitalization of various title words are correct, per the book's contents page.

See also

• Brownie
• Fairy
  Fairy
  A fairy is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural.Fairies resemble various beings of other mythologies, though even folklore that uses the term...
  
  
• Kelpie
  Kelpie
  The kelpie is a supernatural water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland; the name may be from Scottish Gaelic cailpeach or colpach "heifer, colt".-Description and behaviour:...
  
  
• Loch Ness
  Loch Ness
  Loch Ness is a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately southwest of Inverness. Its surface is above sea level. Loch Ness is best known for the alleged sightings of the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster, also known affectionately as "Nessie"...
  
  
• Merman
  Merman
  Mermen are mythical male equivalents of mermaids – legendary creatures who have the form of a human from the waist up and are fish-like from the waist down.-Mythology:...
  
  
• Sea serpent
  Sea serpent
  A sea serpent or sea dragon is a type of sea monster either wholly or partly serpentine.Sightings of sea serpents have been reported for hundreds of years, and continue to be claimed today. Cryptozoologist Bruce Champagne identified more than 1,200 purported sea serpent sightings...
  
  
• Selkie
  Selkie
  Selkies are mythological creatures that are found in Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish folklore....