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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841589510

RRP: £8.99

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
April 18, 2011

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Jack and the Devil’s Purse

Duncan Williamson

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.

Reviews of Jack and the Devil’s Purse

Duncan is a first-class storyteller' – Northern Times 'An important part of our heritage to be treasured and shared' – Scottish Home and Country 'Superbly handled, as you would expect from this acknowledged master of storytelling'- The Scots Magazine

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Duncan Williamson

With over ten books to his name, 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.