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    Jack and the Devil's Purse: Scottish Traveller Tales

    By Duncan Williamson

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBirlinn
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    ISBN9780857900531
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    Jack and the Devil's Purse: Scottish Traveller Tales
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    Duncan Williamson

    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.

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