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Duncan Williamson 
Jack and the Devil’s Purse 
Scottish Traveller Tales

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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.
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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.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9780857900531 ● File size 0.3 MB ● Publisher Birlinn ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2349216 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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