Skye - The Island and Its Legends

Informationen zum Autor Otta Swire was born in 1898 and spent many happy childhood holidays in Skye, where she became captivated by the islands rich history of folklore and began recording them in notebooks. She had these formally published in 1949, after she had moved to Skye to live permanently. She died in 1973. Klappentext Features 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. This work takes us far beyond Christian times to the edge of the Iron Age. Zusammenfassung Features 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. This work takes us far beyond Christian times to the edge of the Iron Age.

Product details

• Authors: Otta F Swire, Otta F. Swire, Swire Otta F.
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.09.2018
• EAN: 9781912476336
• ISBN: 978-1-912476-33-6
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Isle of Skye, HISTORY / General, Local History