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Scottish folklore (Scottish Gaelic: Beul-aithris na h-Alba) encompasses the folklore of the Scottish people from their earliest records until today. Folklorists , both academic and amateur, have published a variety of works focused specifically on the area over the years. [ 1 ]
Scottish mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Scotland, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations, and at other times being rejected and replaced by other explanatory narratives.
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The Scottish novelist James Hogg incorporated brownie folklore into his novel The Brownie of Bodsbeck (1818). [69] [67] The novel is set in 1685, when the Covenanters, a Scottish Presbyterian movement, were being persecuted. [67] Food goes missing from the farm of Walter of Chaplehope, leading villagers to suspect it is the "brownie of Bodsbeck".
The Autumn Ghosts is a 1973 children's book originally titled The Autumn People, re-printed 1976 with this title. It was written by Ruth M. Arthur, illustrated by Margery Gill and published by Atheneum Books. The book - set in the Scottish Islands, north of Scotland - explores good and evil in a small community.
A bogle, boggle, or bogill is a Northumbrian, [1] Cumbrian [2] and Scots term for a ghost or folkloric being, [3] used for a variety of related folkloric creatures including Shellycoats, [4] Barghests, [4] Brags, [4] the Hedley Kow [1] [5] and even giants such as those associated with Cobb's Causeway [5] (also known as "ettins", "yetuns" or "yotuns" in Northumberland and "Etenes", "Yttins" or ...
The glaistig / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ t ɪ ɡ / is a ghost from Scottish mythology, a type of fuath.It is also known as maighdean uaine (Green Maiden), and may appear as a woman of beauty or monstrous mien, as a half-woman and half-goat similar to a faun or satyr, or in the shape of a goat. [1]