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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!
Excellent collection of Scottish folktales. Easy to read. Great for anyone interested in Scottish heritage.
Published on July 13, 2009 by AHF
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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A surreal collection wrapped up in a linguistic challenge
You really must love the wild and weird tales of the Celts in order to wade through this collection of Scottish folk tales. The tales themselves are strange and fantastic, far more terrifying than any familiar fairy story--talking frogs, beautiful and ugly sisters and mothers who boil up their sons for dinner. What makes them even more of a challenge is that they...
Published on July 16, 1998
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A surreal collection wrapped up in a linguistic challenge,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Penguin Book of Scottish Folktales (Mass Market Paperback)
You really must love the wild and weird tales of the Celts in order to wade through this collection of Scottish folk tales. The tales themselves are strange and fantastic, far more terrifying than any familiar fairy story--talking frogs, beautiful and ugly sisters and mothers who boil up their sons for dinner. What makes them even more of a challenge is that they are written in an English phonetic spelling of Scots, or Gaelic, accents. It takes some effort to decipher the accent and the idioms in order to get the fullest effect of the tales themselves. Those with a keen "inner ear" will soon find themselves "hearing" the voices from the tales. Others may actually have to read the folk tales aloud in order to get the sound and the meaning.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!,
By AHF (Evansville, WI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Penguin Book of Scottish Folktales (Mass Market Paperback)
Excellent collection of Scottish folktales. Easy to read. Great for anyone interested in Scottish heritage.
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The Penguin Book of Scottish Folktales by Neil Philip (Mass Market Paperback - August 1, 1996)
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