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'Scotland's greatest contemporary storyteller.' -- The Guardian
Silver Unicorns and Golden Birds is a treasure trove of traditional
Scottish folk and fairy tales as told by Duncan Williamson, one of
Scotland's greatest storytellers. Young readers will explore a land
of folklore and magic inhabited by friendly fairies, wicked ogres,
majestic birds and shining unicorns in captivating tales, full of
colour, humour and life. These timeless stories have been passed
down the generations through oral tradition and are now retold for
today's children while carefully preserving Duncan's unique
storytelling voice. One of Scotland's Travelling People, Duncan
spent a lifetime journeying the country's highways and byways,
collecting stories along the way. This beautifully presented
treasury includes insight into Duncan's life and cultural heritage
alongside a curated collection of his best-loved stories and
classic tales. A selection of these stories has previously appeared
in The Coming of the Unicorn and The Flight of the Golden Bird.
Realistic, cheeky and easy-to-read, My Mind Won't Shut Up! is a
book that challenges meditation myths. It's for ordinary,
stressed-out people with money worries, weird families and
haemorrhoids. Written by two sturdy-legged Glaswegians with short
attention spans, My Mind Won't Shut Up! is aimed at anyone who is
curious about meditation but turned off by anything too woo-woo. It
is not a spiritual journey, and it won't make you better at kung
fu. It will help you be kinder to yourself, stop you from spinning
out and make you less prone to emotional wobbles.
Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan
Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the
foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs,
Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller
is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews
undertaken with him in the 1980s. Williamson tells of his birth and
upbringing in the west of Scotland, his family background as one of
Scotland's seminomadic travelling people, his varied work
experiences after setting out from home at about age fifteen, and
the challenges he later faced while raising a family of his own,
living on the road for half the year. The recordings on which the
book is based were made by John D. Niles, who was then an associate
professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Niles has
transcribed selections from his field tapes with scrupulous
accuracy, arranging them alongside commentary, photos, and other
scholarly aids, making this priceless self-portrait of a brilliant
storyteller available to the public. The result is a delight to
read. It is also a mine of information concerning a vanished way of
life and the place of singing and storytelling in Traveller
culture. In chapters that feature many colorful anecdotes and that
mirror the spontaneity of oral delivery, readers learn much about
how Williamson and other members of his persecuted minority had the
resourcefulness to make a living on the outskirts of society,
owning very little in the way of material goods but sustained by a
rich oral heritage.
The ghosts Linda Williamson writes about in this book are not misty
phantoms. She prefers to call them earthbound spirits, because that
is just what they are - ordinary men and women who, instead of
passing into the spirit world when they died, have remained trapped
and bound to this world. As a medium, Linda encounters many such
spirits. Very few are evil, most are lost and confused. Some do not
even realise that they have died. With love and compassion they can
be released, so that they can move forward to the place where they
belong. If you have ever sensed a presence in your house, glimpsed
a shadow out of the corner of your eye, or heard inexplicable
noises, it may be that you are sharing your home with an earthbound
spirit. Linda explains what to do in these situations and gives a
fascinating insight into what it is like to be an earthbound
spirit.
When a loved one dies, many people have an urgent need to find out
what has happened to the person who has gone. Have they ceased to
exist or are they living in another world? What kind of world is
it? Is it possible to get in touch? Is the feeling of the dead
person's continuing presence real or just imagination? CONTACTING
THE SPIRIT WORLD provides the answers, building a strong case for
life after death, and shows you how to develop your own powers as a
medium. Looks at contact with the dead arising spontaneously
through dreams, visions, hearing voices and astral journeys.
Contains stories of ordinary people not previously psychic or
believers in life after death who undergo extraordinary,
life-changing experiences. Linda Williamson draws on her own
experiences and those of other mediums, sitters and ordinary
people.
Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan
Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the
foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs,
Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller
is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews
undertaken with him in the 1980s. Williamson tells of his birth and
upbringing in the west of Scotland, his family background as one of
Scotland's seminomadic travelling people, his varied work
experiences after setting out from home at about age fifteen, and
the challenges he later faced while raising a family of his own,
living on the road for half the year. The recordings on which the
book is based were made by John D. Niles, who was then an associate
professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Niles has
transcribed selections from his field tapes with scrupulous
accuracy, arranging them alongside commentary, photos, and other
scholarly aids, making this priceless self-portrait of a brilliant
storyteller available to the public. The result is a delight to
read. It is also a mine of information concerning a vanished way of
life and the place of singing and storytelling in Traveller
culture. In chapters that feature many colorful anecdotes and that
mirror the spontaneity of oral delivery, readers learn much about
how Williamson and other members of his persecuted minority had the
resourcefulness to make a living on the outskirts of society,
owning very little in the way of material goods but sustained by a
rich oral heritage.
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