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

Stories of Giants and Monsters

• The Battle of the Birds

• The Sea-Maiden

• Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm

• Sawney Bean

Legends and Traditions

• 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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