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Book Synopsis The Dragon Stoorworm by : Theresa Breslin
Download or read book The Dragon Stoorworm written by Theresa Breslin and published by Kelpies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning retelling of a traditional Scottish creation myth with magical illustrations of Scottish landscapes The Dragon Stoorworm was the very first, very worst dragon that ever lived. It was ginormous: almost as big as the whole of Scotland! The King of Scotland called for warriors to defeat the terrible dragon and save his daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely, from being eaten. But none who faced the dragon ever returned, until... Gentle Assipattle is no warrior, but maybe together, he and Princess Gemdelovely can free Scotland from the wrath of the Dragon Stoorworm. A lively retelling of the traditional Scottish folk tale of the Dragon Stoorworm (or Mester Stoor Worm), which explains the origins of Scotland's many islands, adapted for a young audience. Award-winning author Theresa Breslin's story unfolds with wry humor while Matthew Land's magical illustrations capture the fairy-tale beauty of Scotland. The Dragon Stoorworm is one of a range of picture books that bring classic Scottish folk and fairy tales to life for young children.
Book Synopsis Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm by : Walter Traill Dennison
Download or read book Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm written by Walter Traill Dennison and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The King’s daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.” Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm relates the tale of a Kingdom besieged by a gigantic sea-serpent and the battle between Assipattle, a most unlikely hero, and the Stoorworm, as Assipattle seeks to save Gemdelovely, the daughter of the King. This edition is the original Orkney tale as recorded by Walter Traill Dennison. It also includes up-to-date language notes by Rachel Louise Lawrence. [Folklore Type: ATU-300 (The Dragon Slayer)]
Book Synopsis Assipattle and the Stoor Worm by : Tom Muir
Download or read book Assipattle and the Stoor Worm written by Tom Muir and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Dragons by : Jacqueline Simpson
Download or read book British Dragons written by Jacqueline Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that witchcraft faded away with the onset of the scientific revolution is entirely mistaken. This text stands in the grand tradition of writing and witchcraft and suggests that magic was alive and well in 19th-century Scotland, as contemporary newspaper reports confirm.
Book Synopsis An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by : Theresa Breslin
Download or read book An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales written by Theresa Breslin and published by Illustrated Scottish Treasuries. This book was released on 2012 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slithering stoorworms, mischievous brownies, fierce kelpies and magical selkies are exquisitely brought to life for children in Theresa Breslin's enchanting tales and Kate Leiper's otherwordly illustrations.
Download or read book Dragon written by Martin Arnold and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation’s Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial authority in ancient China to the so-called dragon-women who threaten male authority, dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled humanity for thousands of years. These often scaly beasts take a wide variety of forms and meanings, but there is one thing they all have in common: our fear of their formidable power and, as a consequence, our need either to overcome, appease, or in some way assume that power as our own. In this fiery cultural history, Martin Arnold asks how these unifying impulses can be explained. Are they owed to our need to impose order on chaos in the form of a dragon-slaying hero? Is it our terror of nature, writ large, unleashed in its most destructive form? Or is the dragon nothing less than an expression of that greatest and most disturbing mystery of all: our mortality? Tracing the history of ideas about dragons from the earliest of times to Game of Thrones, Arnold explores exactly what it might be that calls forth such creatures from the darkest corners of our collective imagination.
Book Synopsis The Stones are Hatching by : Geraldine McCaughrean
Download or read book The Stones are Hatching written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Phelim and his companions, a Maiden, a Fool, and a strange black Horse, journey to the Stoor Worm's lair to destroy the long-forgotten Worm and its Hatchlings, who have been roused from their slumber by the sounds of war.
Book Synopsis Abominable Science by : Daniel Loxton
Download or read book Abominable Science written by Daniel Loxton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents arguments for and against the existence of five notable cryptids and challenges the pseudoscience that furthers their legendary statuses, while providing an exploration of the nature and subculture of cryptozoology.
Download or read book Orkney Folk Tales written by Tom Muir and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.
Book Synopsis The Hill of the Dragon by : Paul Newman
Download or read book The Hill of the Dragon written by Paul Newman and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introducing the Medieval Dragon by : Thomas Honegger
Download or read book Introducing the Medieval Dragon written by Thomas Honegger and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnold, Martin. 2018. The Dragon. Fear and Power. London: Reaktion Books. My book is much shorter and focusses on the medieval (European) dragon, while Martin’s book covers all centuries and also the Asian tradition.
Download or read book Celtic Tales written by Kate Forrester and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an absorbing introduction to the lore of Albion, but readers will also enjoy teasing out similarities between these tales and more familiar ones." — Publishers Weekly Perilous quests, true love, and animals that talk: The traditional stories of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales transport us to the fantastical world of Celtic folklore. • This Celtic mythology book features 16 stores that were translated and transcribed by folklorists in the late 19th and 20th centuries that focus on themes such as Tricksters, The Sea, Quests, and Romance and mythological creatures. • These timeless tales brim with wit and magic, and each one is brought to life with elegant silhouette art in this special illustrated edition • Celtic Tales is an extraordinary collection that conjures forgotten realms and rare magical creatures in vivid prose Discover the impactful and stunning illustrations by Kate Forrester in this special edition that is sure to impress any true fan of cultural and mythological literature. Discover delightfully entertaining tales such as Master and Man, The Soul Cages, The Red-Etin, and The Witch of Lok Island. Celtic Tales makes an impressive gift for any fan of greek mythology, roman mythology, Chinese mythology, and folklore and cultural studies from around the globe.
Book Synopsis The 12 Days O Yule by : Susan Rennie
Download or read book The 12 Days O Yule written by Susan Rennie and published by Kelpies. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Take a deep breath and prepare for a journey through all twelve days of Yuletide, with a cast of skaters skooshin, lassies birlin, sheep a-shooglin and the all-important five gowden rings. Inspired by the traditional verse, this adaptation features easy-to-understand (and pronounce) Scots words and creatures, including hoolets (owls), and bonnie doos (beautiful doves)"--
Book Synopsis The Scottish Fairy Book by : Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
Download or read book The Scottish Fairy Book written by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are, roughly speaking, two distinct types of Scottish Fairy Tales. There are what may be called "Celtic Stories," which were handed down for centuries by word of mouth by professional story-tellers, who went about from clachan to clachan in the "Highlands and Islands," earning a night's shelter by giving a night's entertainment, and which have now been collected and classified for us by Campbell of Isla and others. These stories, which are also common to the North of Ireland, are wild and fantastic, and very often somewhat monotonous, and their themes are strangely alike. They almost always tell of some hero or heroine who sets out on some dangerous quest, and who is met by giants, generally three in number, who appear one after the other; with whom they hold quaint dialogues, and whom eventually they slay. Most of them are fairly long, and although they have a peculiar fascination of their own, they are quite distinct from the ordinary Fairy Tale. These latter, in Scotland, have also a character of their own, for there is no country where the existence of Spirits and Goblins has been so implicitly believed in up to a comparatively recent date. As a proof of this we can go to Hogg's tale of "The Wool-gatherer," and see how the countryman, Barnaby, voices the belief of his day. "Ye had need to tak care how ye dispute the existence of fairies, brownies, and apparitions! Ye may as weel dispute the Gospel of Saint Matthew." Perhaps it was the bleak and stern character of their climate, and the austerity of their religious beliefs which made our Scottish forefathers think of the spirits in whom they so firmly believed, as being, for the most part, mischievous and malevolent. Their Bogies, their Witches, their Kelpies, even their Fairy Queen herself, were supposed to be in league with the Evil One, and to be compelled, as Thomas of Ercildoune was near finding out to his cost, to pay a "Tiend to Hell" every seven years; so it was not to be wondered at, that these uncanny beings were dreaded and feared. But along with this dark and gloomy view, we find touches of delicate playfulness and brightness. The Fairy Queen might be in league with Satan, but her subjects were not all bound by the same law, and many charming tales are told of the "sith" or silent folk, who were always spoken of with respect, in case they might be within earshot, who made their dwellings under some rocky knowe, and who came out and danced on the dewy sward at midnight.
Book Synopsis Inside The Worm by : Robert Swindells
Download or read book Inside The Worm written by Robert Swindells and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her... Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm - or dragon - that once terrorised the village. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance...
Download or read book The Selkie Girl written by Janis Mackay and published by Kelpies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Scottish folktale, retold with hauntingly beautiful illustrations.
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