Folktales of South Uist
Folktales of South Uist
Note: These have been freely adapted from tales appearing in the book "Stories From South Uist", now sadly out of print, by the late J.L. Campbell as told to him in Gaelic by Angus MacLellan. The oral tradition in the Hebrides was strong for over one thousand years but sadly finished with the generation who died in the 1960s and 1970s. They differ somewhat from the English language tradition of stories in that the telling is all and the endings sometimes mystify. There is a reason for this. Sometimes, though the stories might be anything between one hundred and one thousand years old, many were adapted, with some licence, from factual events.
The Fingalians In The Rowan Mansion
How Gille Padra' Dubh Paid His Rent
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