Scottish Fairy Tales

Most of these Scottish Fairy Tales are children's stories from the West Highlands.

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Nursery Stories

• The Story of the White Pet
• The Milk-White Doo
• Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren
• Stories about the Fox

• The Battle of the Birds
• The Sea-Maiden
• Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm
• Sawney Bean

• The Pechs
• The Worme of Linton
• The Legend of Linton Church
• Thomas the Rhymer
• Michael Scott
• The Ghost that Danced at Jethart
• The Tale of Sir James Ramsay of Bamff
• The Lee Penny
• Boasting Punished
• The Craig Liath Mhor
• Fiddler's Well

• The Fairies of Scotland
• The Fairy and the Miller's Wife
• Sir Godfrey MacCulloch
• The Isle of Pabaidh
• Water Fairies
• The Poor Man of Peatlaw
• Mind the Crooked Finger
• The Smith and the Fairies
• Redemption from Fairy Land
• Thom and Willie

• The Laird o' Co'.
• Habitrot
• The Tulman
• Sanntraigh
• Fairy Transportation
• The Fairy Boy of Leith
• The two young Ploughmen
• The Lothian Farmer's Wife
• The Fairy and the Bible Reader
• The Gloaming Bucht

• The Scottish Brownie
• The Brownie and the Thievish Maids
• The Doomed Rider
• The Fisherman and the Merman
• The Seal-Catchers Adventure
• The Young Laird of Lorntie
• The Two Shepherds

• The Brownie of Bodsbeck
• The Bogle
• Graham of Morphie
• The Mermaid Wife
• The Mermaid of Knockdolion
• Nuckelavee
• Fatlips

Witchcraft

• MacGillichallum of Razay
• The Blacksmith's Wife of Yarrowfoot
• Ronaldson of Bowden
• Laird Harry Gilles
• The Witches of Delnabo

• The Witch of Laggan
• The Miller of Holdean
• The Farmer's Wife of Deloraine
• The Missing Web

Apparitions, Wraiths, The Second Sight

• The Old Lady of Littledean
• Prince Charlie's Cave
• The Thurso Merchants Wraith
• A Wedding Frustrated
• The Whinger
• The Winding Sheet
• Phantom Funerals

• The Spectre Piper
• Adam Bell
• Buried Treasure Discovered
• The Straw-Rope Garters
• The Herring-Curer's Vision
• Apparition of a Corpse
• The Death Portent

Comic Tales

• The Wee Bunnock
• Lothian Tom
• The Witty Exploits of Mr. George Buchanan, The Kings Fool.

• The Tale of the Shifty Lad, the Widow's Son
• The Ploughman's Glory; or Tom's Song

Literary Tales

• The Haunted Ships
• Cousin Mattie

• Elphin Irving
• Rat Hall

Children's Stories

• Children's Stories from Margo Fallis
• Pixies, Tiddlywinks and Bumblebee Bread
• When Santa Cried
• Stories from Gemma Howe

• Strange Tales from Scotland
• Grandfather tells the children the story of the Great Flood

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