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Legendary Tales of the Highlands (Volume 2 of 3) / A sequel to Highland Rambles

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A collection of Highland legends and rural sketches that blends atmospheric landscape description with folk narratives and explanatory anecdotes. Individual stories range from a dramatic account in which a large bird seizes an infant and villagers pursue to recover the child, to episodes involving storms, unwelcome visitors, altered acquaintances, and reflections on place-names and domestic comforts. The pieces interleave supernatural motifs, local tradition, and everyday observation, moving between narrated incidents, moral reflection, and concise origin-tales that evoke community memory and the region's natural setting.

EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE,
PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

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This book is volume II of a three-volume set, which appeared in 1841. Volume I is also available in Project Gutenberg as eBook number 58913.

Scans of this work are available from the Internet Archive (Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3). The text is derived from these scans.

An 1881 edition in one volume appeared under the title Tales of the Highlands (copy 1, 2, 3). Because of the better scan quality, the illustrations of this edition have been used for this ebook, although they where also present in the first edition.

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