Product Description: In the course of his long poem An Airce, 'The Ark', the Jacobite poet Alexander MacDonald shows the Campbells being subjected to trial by water for the part they played in defeating Prince Charles's army in 1745 - 6. Some will be drowned outright, he says, some just given a good ducking - and some will be honourably treated...read more

Product Description: Poetry is something that we all share, each time that we think a thought. We think in poetry, only some of us are not able to put it in words but thoughts of poetry live in our hearts. We are filled with emotions and that is what poetry is...read more

Product Description: Poetry is something that we all share, each time that we think a thought. We think in poetry, only some of us are not able to put it in words but thoughts of poetry live in our hearts. We are filled with emotions and that is what poetry is...read more

Product Description: John Gregorson Campbell was one of the most outstanding folklorists working in Scotland during the 19th century. Based on materials that he had gathered in the 1850s and 1860s, this engaging record is an introduction to a galaxy of fairies, witches, ghosts, and supernatural creatures...read more

Product Description: Book by Black, Ronald

Product Description: This is a fabulous treasury of legend and wonder; tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shape-shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand and shells which fall from their hair...read more

Product Description: John Gregorson Campbell was a folklorist who collected and published the traditions of their native Highlands and Islands during the second half of the 19th century and first few years of the 20th. This work includes his views on superstitions, witchcraft and second sight.

Product Description: John Gregorson Campbell (1836-91) was one of a number of outstanding folklorists who collected and published the traditions of their native Highlands and Islands during the second half of the nineteenth century and the first few years of the twentieth...read more

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Product Description: This is a proceedings volume of the 10th International Congress of Celtic Studies. It includes a wide range of contributions on the subjects of Celtic language and identity.