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James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice-president of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society. [1] He founded the Scottish National ...
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.
Scottish ghosts (1 C, 7 P) Scottish giants (2 P) L. Loch Ness Monster (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Scottish legendary creatures" The following 53 pages are in this ...
Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.
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 ]
The Enchanted World was a series of twenty-one books published in the time period 1984-1987. Each book focused on different aspects of mythology, fairy tales or folklore, and all were released by Time-Life Books. [1]
The Canongate Myth Series is a series of novellas published by the independent Scottish publisher Canongate Books, in which ancient myths from various cultures are reimagined and rewritten. The project was conceived in 1999 by Jamie Byng, owner of Canongate, and the first three titles in the series were published on 21 October 2005. [1]
The Scottish Gaelic name Slúagh stems from the Old Irish slúag (≈ slóg), meaning 'host, army; crowd, assembly'.Variant forms include slógh and sluag. [3] It derives from the Proto-Celtic root * slougo-(cf. Gaul. catu-slougi 'troops of combat', Middle Welsh llu 'troop', Old Bret.-lu 'army'), whose original meaning may have been 'those serving the chief', by comparing with Balto-Slavic ...
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