Scottish Stories
Tales from bonnie Scotland
Audio Story
Tam O’Shanter or How Maggie lost her Tail
Burns Night is a celebration held on the 25th of January in honour of Scotland’s famous poet, Robert Burns. We celebrate this Scottish evening with the story of Tam O’Shanter (originally told in a poem by Burns) who stays out late and meets a gang of witches on his way home.
Audio Story
The Elfin Knight
A ghostly knight rides across a Scottish moore. Two brave Earls ignore warnings about him, and go hunting on the moore. Only one of them carries the sign of the Trinity.
Audio Story
The Sprightly Tailor
A spooky, scary, and at the same time funny story from Scotland, about a taylor who has to sew some trews in the haunted ruins of an old church.
Audio Story
The Fairies of Merlin’s Craig
Fairies appear to a man digging peat on a Scottish moor. Soon he is dancing to strange music with them.
Audio Story
The Seal Catcher
A Scottish story about a seal catcher who has a chance to speak with one of the animals that he hunts for a living and discovers that seals have feelings just as much as we do.
