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Jack and the Devil's Purse Duncan Williamson

Jack and the Devil's Purse By Duncan Williamson

Jack and the Devil's Purse by Duncan Williamson


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Summary

An expanded edition of Duncan Williamson's best selling May the Devil Walk Behind Ye! Twenty tales surviving from oral tradition are re-told by one of Scotlands master yarn spinners. Williamson provides fascinating insight into the beliefs about evil, suffering, and temptation held by travellers.

Jack and the Devil's Purse Summary

Jack and the Devil's Purse by Duncan Williamson

Devil stories are always fascinating, entertaining and disturbing. These twenty tales, re-told by one of Scotland's master storytellers, are a fascinating insight into Traveller beliefs about evil, temptation and suffering in which the Devil exists not to punish, but to outwit you in a contest of intelligence and knowledge. This collection is an expanded edition of Duncan Williamson's best-selling May the Devil Walk Behind Ye!, originally published by Canongate.

Jack and the Devil's Purse Reviews

'An important part of our heritage to be treasured and shared'

* Scottish Home and Country *

'Superbly handled, as you would expect from this acknowledged master of storytelling'

* Scots Magazine *

'Duncan is a first-class storyteller'

* Northern Times *

About Duncan Williamson

With over ten books to his name, Duncan Williamson was one of the last, best-known of Scotland's traveller storytellers. The son, grandson and great grandson of nomadic tinsmiths, basket makers, pipers and storytellers, he became known as one of the world's finest oral story-tellers, with over 3,000 stories committed to memory. He died in November 2007.

Additional information

GOR003013721
9781841589510
1841589519
Jack and the Devil's Purse by Duncan Williamson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Birlinn General
20110418
224
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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