Elizabeth Wilson Grierson (1869-1943) was born at Whitchesters, a farm near Hawick in the Scottish Borders, where she also lived as an adult. She published more than 30 books, including several collections of Scottish fairy stories, folk tales and ballads, and travel guides to Edinburgh and Florence.
There are, roughly speaking, two distinct types of Scottish Fairy Tales. There are what may be called "Celtic Stories," which were handed down for centuries by word of mouth by professional story-tellers, who went about from clachan to clachan in the "High-lands and Islands," earning...
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