Today’s episode is a special one as it marks the release of my new book, Scottish Myths & Legends Volume II.

For this episode I wanted to share with you a story narrated by Angus King, who narrated the audiobook of Scottish Myths & Legends Volumes I & II. The story comes from the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. I first heard it from Linda Williamson, the wife of the famous Traveller storyteller Duncan Williamson, and it’s called Fair Maid’s Tresses.

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My guest today is Stephen McCabe of Green Temple Therapy. A former student on my Myth Singers course, Stephen is a storyteller, author, Zen Buddhist, tarot reader and nature therapist based in the village of Temple in Scotland. He’s the author of The Moorfoot Tales, a collection in which his deep love for nature is always present and eloquently expressed.

You can use the chapter marker or go to around 47mins if you’d like to skip straight to the story.

Learn more about Stephen by visiting his website where you can download his free nature therapy ebook, or buy getting a copy of The Moorfoot Tales, which I highly recommend.

Get my free ebook of traditional and original stories here.

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My guest today is Jess Smith. Jess is a storyteller, author and singer from the Scottish travelling people. She spent much of her childhood living on a bus and travelling around Scotland with her parents and seven sisters, spending evenings around fires listening to the stories carried by the travelling people while the rest of the country was busy forgetting them.

Listening back to the interview, which we recorded a couple of year ago, I’m struck once again by gratitude that I know and get to talk to people who carry such precious heritage and knowledge as Jess, and to introduce you to her. There are very few people left who can remember this way of life, and even fewer with such a gift for describing it.

You can use the chapter marker if you’d like to skip straight to the story, which starts around 40mins in. But I'd highly recommended listening to Jess describe a way of life which is almost gone from this world.

You can learn more about Jess and find links to buy her books here.

Get my free ebook of Orcadian stories here.

Support the podcast by buying one of my books for the price of a cup of coffee here.

Learn about Myth Singers, my Online Celtic Storytelling Apprenticeship, here.