Snag Your Copy Tales Of Galloway Created By Alan Temperley Issued As Manuscript

is possibly one of my favourite books, My dad bought it when I was younger, specifically for one story, 'The Brownie of Bladnoch', because we live on a farm where the Broonie supposedly worked for a while.


Temperley is a fantastic storyteller, He engages well with the Gallovidian landscape, and has selected a good range of local legends and folk tales, as well as rewriting some better known stories, like Sawney Bean, in a fluid, enchanting style which is accessible for readers of all ages.


Overall a fascinating and wellwritten collection of folk tales from a rural area of Scotland, steeped in history and legends, a book of short stories some very spooky I love stories, I like to read them and then make them mine, telling them to friends and family, That's how stories used to be told, and I think that I might like, someday, to become a professional storyteller,

This is a collection of fiftyone tales, They range from amusing, to heroic, to disturbing,

to grotesque, I love myths and legends and folktales best of all tales except for bible stories, I love bible stories. so this book was like a treasure trove, It mixed folktales and legends with chapters of history and biography, It was a very convenient setup, I am extremely interested in Scottish history, I have some Scottish blood, and so it holds a sort of double fascination,

I wouldn't recommend this book to all, it contains some fairly gruesome tales, and it doesn't gloss over some of the less reputable characters or details.
But taken all in all, I think it would be okay for most people, I thought it was good, I'll give it three,
I am so sad to discover only one review here! Tales of Galloway is without a doubt, my favourite book in the world and means so much to me, as i grew up and still live near Galloway in Scotland.
I even have a large tattoo designed to dedicate my lifelong love for the wonderful characters found within the pages of this magical book, If you love beautiful folklore, this is one for you! In this collection of fiftyone tales from the land of galloway, Alan Temperley pays tribute to the great Scottish tradition of storytelling.
The tales are wideranging: heros, ghosts and solway smugglers witches, martyrs, mermaids and fairies reivers, monsters and colourful rogues, Here are Billy Marshall, King of the tinklers Sawney Bean, the murderous cannibal young Robert the Brube on the run in the heather Trost, last of the Picts, who kept the secret of heather ale the legend of Mons Meg Claverhouse and Lagg, persecutors of the Covenanters the famous poterguist of Rerrick and many more.


Simply told and unadorned, the stories bear the flavour of the region mountain and forest, silver rivers and lochs, the wild Solway Firth, and some of the most beautiful rolling countryside in Britain.
Originally these traditional tales ranging from rustic comedy to horrific murder were told in crofts and rural cottages, They grew naturally out of the rich past and the land and the lives of the people wonderful stories, And they are still as alive today as when they were first told, .