Ghosts Go Haunting
Published on 19. August 2014
119 pages
978-1-4976-4014-6 (ISBN)
Description
Ten Scottish ghost stories of ghastly ghouls and Gaelic superstitions
Those who don't believe in ghosts simply have yet to see one for themselves. Once doubters meet a spirit, they will never return to their previous state of disbelief. Ghost stories are everywhere if one is willing to listen.
In these eerie accounts, Sorche Nic Leodhas presents a compilation of Gaelic ghost stories she has collected throughout her life. With tales such as those of the lads who were robbed by a dead man, the crofter who helped carry a coffin, and the mother who came back from the dead to care for her baby, Ghosts Go Hauntingis sure to thrill even the firmest of nonbelievers.
Those who don't believe in ghosts simply have yet to see one for themselves. Once doubters meet a spirit, they will never return to their previous state of disbelief. Ghost stories are everywhere if one is willing to listen.
In these eerie accounts, Sorche Nic Leodhas presents a compilation of Gaelic ghost stories she has collected throughout her life. With tales such as those of the lads who were robbed by a dead man, the crofter who helped carry a coffin, and the mother who came back from the dead to care for her baby, Ghosts Go Hauntingis sure to thrill even the firmest of nonbelievers.
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Person
Sorche Nic Leodhas (1898-1969) was bornLeClaire Louise Gowans in Youngstown, Ohio. After the death of her first husband, she moved to New York and attended classes at Columbia University. Several years later, she met her second husband and became LeClaire Gowans Alger. She was a longtime librarian at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she also wrote children's books. Shortly before she retired in 1966, she began publishing Scottish folktales and other stories under the pseudonym Sorche Nic Leodhas, Gaelic for
Claire, daughter of Louis. In 1963, she received a Newbery Honor for
Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland.Alger continued to write and publish books until her death 1969.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- one: the wicked house of duncan macbain
- two: the man who didn't believe in ghosts
- three: the man who walked widdershins round the kirk
- four: the tale the crofter told
- five:the wild ride in the tilt cart
- six: the man who helped carry the coffin
- seven: the ghost that didn't want to be a ghost
- eight: the lads who met the highwayman
- nine: how tammas macivar macmurdo maclennan met his match
- ten: the young irish lad from the hiring fair
- glossary: explanation of Scottish words
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
