Waverley Scottish Classics
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Green ladies, grey ladies, spectral kings and queens, mischievous ghosts, whispering ghosts, calm poltergeists, wailing washerwomen, phantom dogs, and other assorted ghosts and stories fill this book. Scotland's vibrant storytelling tradition is captured here, with tales of sightings, noises, furniture in disarray and spectres past and present.
This revised edition of a national bestseller has been updated in all walks of life - entertainers, actors, writers, scientists, sportsmen and women, architects, business people, artists, engineers, bankers - the list is long, and dates from antiquity to the present day. Very much the kind of book you can dip into, for a taste of Scotland's greatest and best, and most notorious, this book will also sustain debate about who, why, what, where and when. For a small country, Scotland has produced a remarkable range of talented individuals in all areas, together with enduring characters, rogues and heroes.
This bestselling book of Scottish ghosts, superstitions and folklore consists of stories that range in time from the seventeenth century to the recent past. In a lively, entertaining anthology, you will be introduced some of Scotland's best ghosts. Drummers, bagpipe poltergeists, hillsides, islands, battle sites, ruined churches, hotels, houses and castles - in Scotland that have escaped an odd atmosphere or a haunted appearance. In this abundant collection of over 140 stories of Scotland's rich and varied folklore, ladies, grey ladies, spectral kings and queens, mischievous ghosts, whispering ghosts, calm washerwomen and phantom dogs among many other assorted ghosts and stories. Scotland's vibrant storytelling tradition is captured here, with tales of sightings, noises, spectres past and present. The author reports sightings that have convinced the most skeptical of unbelievers. Whether of over-fertile imaginations, the desire to keep the memory of a colorful character alive, good yarn by the fi reside, or whether they are actual sightings is for you to decide.