Skye: The Island and Its Legends

by Otta F. Swire and David Sellar

Book Overview

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. In the absence of a written tradition, for generations of Skianachs, these tales, handed down orally, contained the very warp and weft of Hebridean history. They take...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912476339
• ISBN13: 9781912476336
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Origin
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"