Voices from the Glen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798235722903)

Beneath the hills of the Scottish Highlands, the old stories are still breathing.

Voices from the Glen gathers the fairy tales, folk legends, supernatural beings, and ancient beliefs of the Scottish Highlands into one atmospheric and deeply readable volume.

Drawing on the great Highland storytelling tradition, this book explores the hidden world of the daoine sith, the people of the fairy mounds, alongside selkies, kelpies, water horses, witches, wise women, giants, revenants, omens, curses, blessings, and the second sight.

Inside you will discover:

• The fairy hills and the strange rules of the people beneath them
• Selkies, shape-shifters, hare witches, and skin-changers
• Fingal, Cuchullin, Diarmuid, Grainne, and the heroic Gaelic tradition
• Highland witches, wise women, and the gift or curse of the second sight
• Kelpies, each-uisge, mermaids, sea spirits, and the deep creatures of the lochs
• Ghosts, fetches, glaistigs, revenants, and the restless dead
• The Cailleach Bheur, giants, curses, blessings, omens, and endings

This is a book for readers who love Scottish folklore, Celtic mythology, fairy lore, ghost stories, old beliefs, and the strange supernatural imagination of the Highlands.

The hills still hold their silence. The lochs still keep their secrets. And the old voices have not gone quiet.