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‘I took my mind a walk or my mind took me a walk– whichever was the truth of it… and my mind observed to me, or I to it, how ordinary extraordinary things are or how extraordinary ordinary things are, like the nature of the mind and the process of observing.’ ~ Norman MacCaig. #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

VINTAGE WITCH COVERS The Witch of the Juniper Walk by Mrs May 1895; Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book 1889. Juniper is said to act as a #witch stopper in folklore; they will be compelled to count a myriad of tiny leaves!

Book Cover of the Day:

"- Ah! How dark These long-extended realms and rueful wastes; Where naught but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was Chaos ere the Infant Sun Was roll'd together, or had tried its beams Athwart the gloom profound!" - Rev Robert Blair

It may be worth recalling that Scott's 'The Antiquary', which I quoted from earlier today, is supposedly the origin of the word 'cliffhanger', thanks to a nail-biting conclusion to one of its chapters - illustrated below. The novel was published in 1816.

‘I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.’ ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🖼️ Williams

#BookWormSat Frontspiece to 'Popular Tales of the West Highlands' by J.F Campbell, 1893. Campbell and several friends toured the highlands gathering folklore, sayings & stories which resulted in an essential 4 volume set. The illustration by Alexander Gardner captures the contents perfectly.

How Sir Walter Scott made the Dandie Dinmont terrier a legend (countrylife.co.uk)

Dandie Dinmont terriers are named after a character in Walter Scott’s GUY MANNERING. Scott was a committed dog-lover: his favourite, a Pyrenean Wolfdog/Highland Deerhound cross named Maida, has his own memorial at the entrance to Abbotsford #BookWormSat www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-abou...

‘Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.’ ~ Walter Scott. @racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a Scottish #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord. An' float the jinglin icy boord, Then, water-kelpies haunt the foord, By your direction, An' nighted trav'llers are allur'd To their destruction." 'Address To The Deil', Robert Burns, 1785 #BookwormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎨 Water kelpy, 1821 (more details in alt text)

He will outlast us, churning out his books, advocate and historian, his prose earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates, its cheap mementos from the land he made… —Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival” DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021

“Round Seäm’s Isle the black waves boil On the rough, rough rocks below And none can tell the date or time Since they were tossed so! Anne Bannerman - Prophetess of the Oracle of Seam #BookWormSat 🖼️ Robert Moyes Adam - Atlantic Waves Beat Against the West Coat of Lewis

I'm glad enough to be Alexander ​Smollett, bad as he is; and I thank my stars upon my knees that I'm not Silver. But there's the ink-bottle opening. To quarters! And indeed the author was just then begining to write the words: CHAPTER XXXIII R.L. Stevenson, The Persons of the Tale

The Brownie: "formed a class of beings distinct in habit and disposition from the friekish and mischievous elves" ~ Sir Walter Scott #botd 1771 more in "Folklore of Scotland" by Stephen G. Rae folklorepress.co.uk #folklore #bookwormsat art: Brownie by Stephen G. Rae

"The western waves of ebbing day Roll o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire." - From 'The Lady Of the Lake' by Sir Walter Scott

"Like other men who spend their lives in obscure literary research, he had a secret ambition to appear in print which was checked by cold fits of diffidence, fear of criticism and habits of indolence and procrastination." - Sir Walter Scott, 'The Antiquary'

“If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.” (Sir Walter Scott “The Lay of the Last Minstrel”, 1804) 🎨 Frank Myrick (1887)

"The birchwood a dapple of fallen gold: a carved hare lies in a Pictish hoard." Anna Crowe 'A Calendar of Hares' (in the 'Best Scottish Poems 2005' online anthology) 🎨 Scottish borders artist Martin Wilson for Kilmartin Museum #BookWormSat @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @asls.org.uk

"The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead;." Sir Walter Scott, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel". #BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social

Couple Holding Hands While Walking (static.klipy.com)

"The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul." —The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark

"The same, whom ancient records call The founder of the Goblin-Hall" ~ from Marmion by Sir Walter Scott, #botd 1771 read more of the subterranean Goblin-Hall (Goblin Ha') of Yester Castle in my "Folklore of Scotland" folkloreofscotland.com #bookwormsat #Scotland art: The Goblin King by Alan Lee

'She plants the forest, pours the flood: Life's poor day I'll musing rave, And find at night a sheltering cave.' -Robert Burns @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat! 🎨Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck

Redcap are "that class of spirits which haunt old castles. Every ruined tower in the south of Scotland is supposed to have an inhabitant of this species" ~ Sir Walter Scott more in my new "Folklore of Scotland" folkloreofscotland.com #bookwormsat #Scotland 📷 Robin Redcap of Hermitage Castle

#BookWormSat 𝚂𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚙𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚛 𝚕𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚠𝚞𝚗𝚐, 𝚂𝚘 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚕𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚙𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚐! "𝚂𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚗! 𝚠𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚗𝚎, 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚔, 𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚑, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚛… 𝚂𝚘 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘 𝚍𝚊𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚠𝚊𝚛, 𝙷𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚎 𝚎’𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚐𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐 𝙻𝚘𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚊𝚛? 𝚂𝚒𝚛 𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚝𝚝 🎨𝙹𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝙴𝚍𝚠𝚒𝚗 𝙼𝚌𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚕𝚕

“The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.” —Pushkin Walter Scott was born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771. He was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature #BookWormSat #C19 #romanticism 💙📚 1/2 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/issue...