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Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems (Canongate Classics) by George Campbell Hay, George Campbell Hay, et all 1995-03 Scottish Ghosts by Lily Seafield, 2001-08-31 Tales of the Seal People: Scottish Folk Tales (International Folk Tale Series) by Duncan Williamson, Chad McCail, 1998-03 Classical Mythology in the Plays, Masques, and Poems of Ben Jonson by Charles Francis Wheeler, 1938-06 Scottish Lore & Folklore by Ronald MacDonald Douglas, 1990-11-21 Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales: From Burns to Buchan (Penguin Classics) by Gordon Jarvie, 2009-02 Scottish Witches and Wizards by H. M. Fleming, 2002-10 Scottish Fairy Tales by Lomond Books, 2000-06 Supernatural Scotland (Scottish Collection) by Harry Campbell, 1998-11-19 Scottish Witchcraft (Chambers' Mini Guides) by Raymond Lamont-Brown, 1994-03-21 The Illustrated Border Ballads: The Anglo-Scottish Frontier by John Marsden, Nic Barlow, 1991-02 Warriors of the Word: The World of the Scottish Highlanders by Michael Newton, 2009-09 Scottish Superstitions (Chambers mini guides) by Raymond Lamont-Brown, 1990-04-12 Scottish Fairy Tales by Philip Wilson, 2001-05-01

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81. MythSearch.com: Celtic Myth
    scottish. General Information. Myth and Legend scottish myth and legend. Welsh.Electronic Texts. Cyfarwydd Welsh stories, many from the Mabinogian.  
    http://www.mythsearch.com/celtic.html
    
    Extractions: Site Map Home What's New Web Rings and Awards ... Contact Didn't find what you were looking for? Search and post a question in the new MythSearch.com Forum! The ancient reliogions of the British Isles are rather popular on the web. Below is a good sampling of what is available. Other related sites are in the Arthurian Legend section. Celtic Bibliographies Celtic Books Celtic Books

82. BBC - Writing Scotland - Tartan Myths
    Novelist and presenter of the Writing Scotland televsion series, Carl MacDougall,introduces an online learning jounrey on tartan myths in scottish  
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/tartan_myth
    
    Extractions: From The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott When James Macpherson's Fragments of Ancient Poetry was published in 1760, he claimed they contained shards of a great, lost, oral history of Scotland. His second collection, Fingal , supposedly detailed the adventures of the third century, Gaelic warrior poet Ossian, son of Fingal, and was greeted more rapturously than the Fragments. Versions were translated, initially into the main European languages and Napoleon is said to have carried a copy. Macpherson's third book Temora was published in 1763. It's authenticity was questioned and he was discredited, though later research showed his works were not completely faked.

83. Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Myths & Mysteries - The Grail, Jesus's Childre
    Even the crucial document of scottish nationhood, the Declaration of Arbroathdraws on myth. For instance, did you know that Jesus Christ was scottish?  
    http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=41772005

84. Barbour Books Scottish Myths And Legends
    scottish Books, maps, guides, calendars. Widest selection on the web. The beston line scottish Booksellers on the net. You name it and if it s to do with  
    http://www.scottishbooksellers.com/acatalog/__Myths.html

85. Celtic Myths And Legends
    scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend scottish Wonder Tales from Myth andLegend by Donald A. Mackenzie 16 lively tales tell of giants rumbling down  
    http://store.doverpublications.com/0486265072.html
    
    Extractions: American History, American...... American Indians Anthropology, Folklore, My...... Antiques Architecture Art Bridge and Other Card Game...... Business and Economics Chess Children Clip Art and Design on CD-...... Coloring Books Cookbooks, Nutrition Crafts Detective, Ghost , Superna...... Dover Patriot Shop Ethnic Interest Features Gift Certificates Gift Ideas History, Political Science...... Holidays Humor Languages and Linguistics Literature Magic, Legerdemain Military History, Weapons ...... Music Nature Performing Arts, Drama, Fi...... Philosophy and Religion Photography Posters Psychology, Education Puzzles, Amusement, Recrea...... Science and Mathematics Shakespeare Shop Sociology, Anthropology, M...... Sports, Out-of-Door Activi...... Stationery, Gift Sets Stationery, Seasonal Books...... Summer Fun Shop Summer Reading Shop Teacher's Store Travel and Adventure Women's Studies Clearance Center Format: Book ISBN: Page Count: Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 Masterful retelling of Irish and Welsh stories and tales of the Ultonian and Ossianic cycles, the voyage of Maeldun, and the myths and tales of the Cymry (Welsh). Favorite and familiar stories of Cuchulain, King Arthur, Deirdre, the Grail, many more. First paperback edition. 58 full-page illus. Genealogical Tables.

86. Ancient Scotland: The Spanish Celtic Connection
    Ancient Celtic connection between Spain and the prescottish people of Northern According the Irish origin myths, King Brigus built Breoghan s Tower or  
    http://members.tripod.com/~Halfmoon/Spain.html
    
    Extractions: The ancient connections between northern Britain and Celtic Spain are strong and supported by many myths and legends. The dolmens, standing stones and the trail of " cup and ring " designs carved on stones by the prehistoric people of Iberia make their way from Spain and Portugal and northern France to Ireland and Scotland and represent the earliest evidence of the movement of prehistoric man from Iberia to the northern islands. Furthermore, the ancients also named the various tribes of northern Britain years before the Romans set foot on Britain and one of the most famous of all were the "Brigantes." Some scholars believe that the Brigantes were named after a Spanish Celtic king. Breoghan (or Brigus or Bregon) who was king of Galicia, Murcia, Castile, and Portugal, and may have even reigned further south in Andalucia - all of which he conquered during the expansion of Celtic culture into Spain. The name "Obregon" is still quite common in northern Spain.

87. Sawney Bean: Myth Or Myth
    In the 1970s a rural myth somehow spread beyond Carrick that a cave at 3 scottish Notes and Queries, 2nd series, Vol 8, (1906–07), pp 101 and 129.  
    http://www.ayrshirehistory.org.uk/sawney/myth.htm
    
    Extractions: Sawney Bean raised his ugly head in the last issue of Ayrshire Notes, in a manner which scarcely does credit to the editors or the author concerned. The reaction of any serious historian (particularly a local historian in Ayrshire) to the Sawney Bean myth should be polite incredulity at least, and outright denunciation at best. Several historians and antiquarians between the late 19th Century and the present day have debunked the story. However, for every sober refutation to appear in print there continue to appear hundreds of credulous regurgitations of the original tale. Irritating though it is to have to expend time and ink on such tabloid history, I am grateful to the editors for this opportunity to review what is known about the Sawney Bean myth ( note 1 Sawney Bean is reputed to have been a mass–murderer and cannibal, who lived with his family in a cave near Ballantrae, on what is now the Ayrshire coast, during the reign of James VI, or during the reign of James I (of Scotland). Versions of the tale proliferated in the 19th Century in books and magazines. Newspaper editors and journalists with column inches to fill in the silly season, and radio and television producers with spare airtime for airheads have maintained and increased Sawney’s notoriety over the last 100 years. And given the success of recent porridge westerns it cannot be long before the cameras begin to roll on a Hollywood blockbuster. Braised Heart, perhaps.

88. Mostly Medieval - Exploring The Middle Ages: Beasts In Myth And Legend A-D
    Beasts in Myth Legend AD Banshee A spirit of Irish and scottish legend,sometimes known in Scotland as the Little Washer of Sorrow.  
    http://www.skell.org/explore/mythadF.htm
    
    Extractions: Banshee: A spirit of Irish and Scottish legend, sometimes known in Scotland as the Little Washer of Sorrow. She has only one nostril, a large projecting front tooth, long flowing hair, webbed feet and red eyes. She spends her life by the river where she can be heard constantly wailing, while washing the clothes of a man doomed to die. If she is captured while washing in the river she must reveal the name of the man destined to die, and then grant three wishes. In Scotland the banshee/banshi had a tendency to marry mortals. Baobhan Sith: An evil spirit found in isolated parts of Scotland. There was a tribe of these spirits which sometimes appeared as hooded crows, but more commonly they were seen as beautiful girls with long trailing green dresses which hid their deer's hooves. They lured young men into their presence and then sucked their blood. One example of their evil ways is related in a Ross-shire tale: four men out hunting were entertained by four baobhan siths; only one realized the danger in time and escaped to tell the tale. Bargvest: Spirit of Celtic mythology usually appearing in the form of an animal, but occasionally in human form. It had eyes like burning coals, claws, horns, a tail, and wore a clanking chain. This spirit appeared most often in fishing villages. If it died and there was a bargvest funeral, this was seen by the fishing community as a portent of impending tragedy. In Yorkshire they were said to haunt the neighborhood of churchyards.

89. Myths, Legends, Fantasy... - Legendary Recipes
    Visitors to Scotland will be pleased to hear that scottish cuisine has improveda lot since then. Myths and legends too are full of references to food.  
    http://elt.britcoun.org.pl/m_recipe.htm
    
    Extractions: Perhaps one of the most famous recipes in English literature comes from a play about a legendary king of Scotland, Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’. The witches on the heath cooked up a rather sinister soup, referred to as a ‘broth’, a word still used to describe soup. We do not recommend this particular Scotch broth though, for reasons you will appreciate when you read some of the ingredients which were thrown into the cauldron (pot). Myths and legends too are full of references to food. In Irish mythology there were nuts of knowledge, probably hazel nuts. Some of these nuts found there way into the Shannon river and were eaten by a salmon which was then caught and cooked by Finn MacCunaill who burnt his thumb on the grilling fish. On sucking his thumb the wisdom of the nuts was transferred to one of his teeth, which became his tooth of knowledge which allowed him to predict the truthfulness of any person and helped him to become the most celebrated of Irish mythical heroes.

90. Myths, Legends, Fantasy... - Annotated Bibliography Series Number 3
    Ed. Neil Phillip, The Penguin Book of scottish Folktales, Penguin, 1992, Ed Roy Porter, Myths of the English, Polity, 1994 reprinted ( ISBN  
    http://elt.britcoun.org.pl/m_anbibl.htm
    
    Extractions: British Studies Web Pages Myths, Legends, Fantasy... HOME MAIL EVENTS INFO ... BOOK REVIEWS Annotated Bibliography Series Number 3 If you have any useful comments to make about books and audio- visual materials you use that you would like to share, please send them to elt@britcoun.org.pl so that we can add them to our forthcoming editions. Due to the special nature of this edition many of the books featured below will be in the 'Fiction' or 'Methodology' Sections of libraries such as British Council Partner Libraries. Within each category below, the books are arranged in alphabetical order by author. Ewa Basiura, Legendary Cracow Tales Known and Unknown Storyteller , 1998 (ISBN 83-907702-5-3)

91. Celtic Attic: Celts Facts And Fiction - Scottish Myths
    scottish Myths and Ossian Fever. The Gaels of Scotland are descended from the scottish myth and folklore is linked to that or Ireland in many ways  
    http://www.celticattic.com/contact_us/the_celts/scottish_myths.htm
    
    Extractions: Celtic Attic Scottish Myths Scottish Myths and Ossian Fever. The Gaels of Scotland are descended from the Ulster migrants who originally settled in the Argyll region in the latter decades of the Roman Empire. The Irish newcomers took with them their Gaelic mythology, and also their name, the Scots - a term that was regularly used to mean "the Irish" until well into the Middle Ages. The Scots founded a powerful Gaelic kingdom which by A.D.900 had conquered the neighboring kingdom of the Picts to occupy most of Britain north of Hadrian's Wall. Scottish myth and folklore is linked to that or Ireland in many ways - quite literally in the case of Fingal's Cave on Staff in the Hebrides, a basalt outcrop which was said

92. Wonder Tales From Scottish Myth And Legend: Introduction
    Wonder Tales from scottish Myth and Legend, by Donald Mackenzie, at sacredtexts.com.  
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tsm/tsm03.htm
    
    Extractions: Sacred Texts Celtic Index Previous ... Next p. 9 Introduction The myths and legends of Scotland are full of what is called "local colour". They afford us not only glimpses of ancient times and of old habits of thought and life, but also of the country itself at different times of the year. In the winter season the great mountain ranges are white with snow and many inland lochs are frozen over, but along the west coast, which is washed by the warm surface waters of the Atlantic and bathed in mild moist breezes from the south-west, there may be found sheltered and sunny spots where wild flowers continue to bloom. The old people believed that somewhere in the west the spirit of Spring had its hiding-place, and they imagined this hiding-place to be a green floating island on which the sun always shone and flowers were p. 10 always blooming. During the reign of Beira p. 11 mountain group in County Kerry. In Scotland the story of the winter goddess, Beira, has a strictly local setting. She is, in consequence, a local deity. Bride, the lady of summer growth, is still remembered also, and there are beautiful Gaelic songs about her. Other stories have likewise a local character. Those who know the west coast will be familiar with the glorious transparency of the hill-surrounded lochs in calm weather. When the old people saw the waters reflecting the mountains and forests, the bare cliffs and the bright girths of green verdure, they imagined a "Land-under-Waves" about which they, of course, made stories. The "Northern Lights" (aurora borealis), which are a feature of northern winters, also stirred their imaginations. They called these vivid and beautiful streamers "Nimble Men" and "Merry Dancers", and believed they sometimes danced and sometimes waged war. In the red-spotted green stones called "blood stones" they saw the blood-drops of the wounded. When the streamers are particularly bright a red cloud often appears below them; this the old people called "the pool of fairy blood".

93. British Crossroads
    scottish myths is a Gopher site providing information on scottish folktales,mythical deities, and mythological cycles.  
    http://www.mythiccrossroads.com/british.htm
    
    Extractions: Last updated on var site="s14mythiccrossroads" Breton British Cornish English ... Scottish Breton Kingdoms of Brittany by David Nash Ford is a website dedicated to the Early Celtic Kingdoms of Brittany. Bretagne.com offers tales about Ys Arthur , and the Knights of the Round Table British/Welsh British Mythology discusses the Mabinogion. Celtic Mythology is a large collection of links. Changeling Legends from the British Isles by D. L. Ashliman offers extracts from folklore works about fairy changelings in the British Isles. Dark Age Cumbria by Mark King covers the history of North-Western Britain during the period 400 - 1000, emphasizing the legend of King Dunmail. Early British Kingdoms by David Nash Ford is a website dedicated to the Early Celtic Kingdoms of the British Isles and the historical King Arthur Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland, and Brittany by Michelle Ziegler Gazetteer of Sub-Roman Britain (AD 400-600) by Dr. Christopher A. Snyder (part of the Internet Archaeology site) provides a hard scientific look at many of the legendary sites of Britian.

94. Myths Of St. Patrick's Day
    Myths of St. Patrick s Day. By Edward T. O’Donnell. Mr. O’Donnell is an AssociateProfessor of Mc and Mac Distinguish One as Either Irish or scottish  
    http://hnn.us/articles/623.html
    
    Extractions: @import url("/css/style.css"); Search HNN: HNN Articles Hot Topics Books Features ... Log In Mr. O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of History at Holy Cross College. He is the author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History (Broadway Books). Learn more at www.EdwardTODonnell.com Elsewhere on HNN So Who Was St. Patrick? St. Patrick's Day in Ireland St. Patrick Was Irish Not exactly. Although no one knows for certain where St. Patrick was born, based on his own account it was most likely in southwestern Britain. As a result, it’s fairly common to find various pundits gleefully commenting on the "irony" that Ireland’s patron saint was actually "English." The problem, of course, is that no one in the 5th century was what we would call "English." Rather, the people living in present-day England were Romanized Celts, or Britons. So Patrick is thus more accurately called a Celtic Briton, son of a low-level Roman official. St. Patrick Was the First Christian Missionary to Ireland

95. Playwrights And Actors Lab & Studio: Writers
    Medieval Studies Skye s scottish Celtic - Medieval Myth Ben Jonson MiddleEnglish scottish and Welsh Myth Sir Philip Sidney English Med.  
    http://www.playwrightsandactorslabandstudio.com/links.html
    
    Extractions: Report a broken link, or suggest a new one. I will be teaching ACTING CLASSES FOR ADULTS AND TEENS and PLAYWRITING FOR ADULTS AND TEENS in the SUSSEX-MIDDLETOWN-PORT JERVIS-MILFORD AREAS Call for information 845 - 754 - 7508 It is our intention here at "PALS" to make this site a rich and varied source of information and knowledge for the playwriting/ acting community. To that end, we invite you to come back often and take advantage of our links. This is an ever-expanding list of sites we have found to be useful and so hope that they may be useful to you also. And by the way, if you would like to suggest a link that you think our community might find useful, by all means, tell us

96. How Myth Became The Legend Of Joseph Campbell - [Sunday Herald]
    How myth became the legend of Joseph Campbell. He’s halfscottish and his workwas the force behind star wars. So why haven’t we heard of him?  
    http://www.sundayherald.com/40821
    
    Extractions: Imagine the When Lucas reread the book in 1975, after he had first come across it while studying anthropology at college, it gave him the focus he needed to turn his sprawling fantasy universe into one coherent, powerful story. Above all, a story that felt real. To Campbell, the value of Star Wars was obvious. Although the mythic structure is universal, he argued, the myth itself has to be kept fresh through constant reinterpretation. Myths help youngsters become part of society, and adults come to terms with their place in the world. In a society which had lost faith in traditional religions, the universal myth needed to be recontextualised to provide a road map for our times, and this was precisely the achievement of Star Wars. A modern myth had been created for Western society. Nevertheless, the general sparsity of myth in the West remained a source of concern to Campbell until his death in 1987, as if something valuable had been lost. Campbell did not want modern states to return to being theocracies, which he regarded as monoliths rightly consigned to history by the triumph of Western individualism, but he wanted their mythical structures to be refurbished.

97. Rediscovered: Jules Verne’s Lost Scotland - [Sunday Herald]
    Details about the myth of scottish firemaidens, drawing ships to wreck on therocks, were excised, as well as details of “New Aberfoyle”, its bagpipes and  
    http://www.sundayherald.com/46913

98. RealMagick Article: Celtic Gods And Heros: Introduction To Celtic Mythology By J
    a wonderful surprise awaits Americans and others of Irish, Welsh, and Scottishdescent. A Celtic mythology of broad dimensions and rich quality exists,  
    http://realmagick.com/articles/10/1310.html
    
    Extractions: Email Gwydion Youngsters of school age almost effortlessly learn about the gods and heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Names like Zeus, Hercules, Diana, Ulysses, Mercury, Venus, and others become widely familiar. Paintings, popular movies, and books trace their stories for enjoyment and enrichment. Most people even know something of Germanic mythology from films about the Vikings or the operas of Wagner. Thor, Odin, Siegfried, and the Valkyries are well-known, and in the English language, four of the seven days of the week are named after German gods. Well, a wonderful surprise awaits Americans and others of Irish, Welsh, and Scottish descent. A Celtic mythology of broad dimensions and rich quality exists, recounting the heroic stories of ancestral peoples of some 2,500 years ago. This Celtic mythology has hundreds of characters and is perhaps even more fantastical than Greek and Roman myths. And lovers of ancient stories who are not of Celtic descent will no doubt appreciate the many splendid Celtic myths, which for most are relatively unknown. For a thousand years of antiquity, the Celtic myths were in the domain of an oral tradition, not yet reduced to writing, and told to the members of each generation by bards, the Celtic poets and lyric story-tellers. Then, sometime after 500 A.D., Irish monks and their Welsh counterparts began capturing the Celtic myths of old on parchment and paper. The Irish monks applied the alphabet of the Romans to the Irish Gaelic language and diligently recorded the mystical stories of their ancestors in a Celtic tongue. In doing this, according the P.B. Ellis, the Irish Celts created Europe's third oldest literature, behind Greek and Latin.

99. 0781807018 : Twenty Scottish Tales And Legends
    Title, Twenty scottish Tales and Legends Availability, In Print. Subjects,Folklore Scotland Myth legend told as fiction  
    http://www.gazellebookservices.co.uk/ISBN/0781807018.htm
    
    Extractions: Originally published in 1940, this classic volume of Scottish folklore is sure to delight and entertain today's reader as well. Twenty enchanting stories take the reader to an extraordinary world of magic harps, angry giants, mysterious spells and gallant knights. Tales of valiant Scottish men and women through history, along with stories of enchantment fairies, giants, kings and queens bring to life the legendary Scottish mythology of ages past.

100. The Myth Of Samhain: Celtic God Of The Dead
     bullet, The scottish Gaelis Dictionary similarly defines Samhain as HTML;WJ Bethancourt III, Halloween, Myths, Monsters and Devils, at  
     http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallo_sa.htm
     
     Extractions: The myth of Samhain: "Celtic god of the dead" Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. Identifying Samhain as a Celtic Death God is one of the most tenacious errors associated with Halloween. Almost all stories about the origin of Halloween correctly state that Halloween had its origins among the ancient Celts and is based on their " Feast of Samhain ." But many conservative Christian authors which are critical of Halloween, Druidism , and/or Wicca have stated that Samhain was named after the famous Celtic " God of the Dead ." No such God ever existed. By the late 1990's many secular sources such as newspapers and television programs had picked up the error and propagated it widely. It is now a nearly universal belief, particularly among conservative Christians. Modern-day Samhain is the day when many Wiccans believe that their God dies, later to be reborn. [Wicca is a Neo-pagan, Earth-centered religion.] Thus, Samhain is not a God of death ; it is actually a yearly observance of the death of a God Was/is Samhain a Celtic God?

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