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"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

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...

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Waverley (bbc.co.uk)

Walter Scott’s WAVERLEY On BBC Sounds: Rana Mitter, Jenni Calder, Robert Crawford, & Andrew Lincoln on the writer & the books which “conjured up a portrait of the British as an effortlessly multicultural people… uniquely qualified to take on the world” #BookWormSat #C19 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Dr Gerard McKeever - Scotch Novels (youtube.com)

From Sept 2025 – Dr @mckeever.bsky.social, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels” #BookWormSat #C19 #romanticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...

"Jekyll with a greedy gusto shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll.... To cast in my lot with Jekyll was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and begun to pamper." - Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

As It Was Told to Me (asls.org.uk)

AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME 3 Short Stories by Walter Scott FREE ebook introduced by @profdanielcook.bsky.social 🪞 reckless romance & supernatural theatrics 🗡️ a slow-burn exposé of national conflict 🔥 a demonic monkey, a trip to Hell, & an unreliable narrator #BookWormSat 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

FALSTAFF That sprightly Scot of Scots, Douglas, that runs a’ horseback up a hill perpendicular⁠— HAL He that rides at high speed and with his pistol kills a sparrow flying. FALSTAFF You have hit it. HAL So did he never the sparrow. Shakespeare, HENRY IV, pt. 1, 2.4

Scott, Opera and the Italian Journey - The Bottle Imp (thebottleimp.org.uk)

Walter Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey “What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas?” #BookWormSat #C19 #romanticism #opera www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/scot...

Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Wattie Goes to Hollywood: Scott, Scotland and Film - The Bottle Imp (thebottleimp.org.uk)

“Scott is the most filmic of writers… He may be considered difficult to read today, long-winded & meandering by modern standards, but his narratives still come alive when the characters move dramatically in a visual world” —Scott & #Cinema #BookWormSat www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/watt...

They had nearly all been in St. Giles’ with its tattered blood-stained banners of the past.The outsides of old Edinburgh churches frightened her, they were of such dark stone, like presences almost the colour of the Castle rock, and were built so warningly with their upraised fingers.

'Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. ✍️ Carol Ann Duffy, Valentine 🖼️ Jane Cruickshank, Red Onion

'It was there that I first clapped eyes on the wolf. He stood in the clearing, reading his verse out loud in his wolfy drawl, a paperback in his hairy paw, red wine staining his bearded jaw. What big ears 1/2 ✍️ Carol Ann Duffy, Little Red-Cap G. Doré, Red Riding Hood...

Cities may all say essentially the same thing but the intonations are different. He was trying to re-attune himself to Glasgow’s. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 William McIlvanney, Laidlaw Trylogy

'The living room remembers Gran dancing to Count Basie. The kitchen can still hear my aunts fighting on Christmas day. The hall is worried about the loose banister. The small room is troubled by the missing hamster. ✍️ Jackie Kay, No.115 dreams 🖼️ Mabel Pryde, The Grange..

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. #BookWormSat 🎨 Kitteredge Publishing

"For nought can cheer the heart sae weel As can a canty Highland reel; It even vivifies the heel To skip and dance; Lifeless is he who canna feel Its influence." The Daft Days Robert Fergusson

"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men Gang aft agley.... Still, [Mousie,] thou art blest, compar'd wi' me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my eye, On prospects drear! An' forward tho' I canna see, I guess an' fear!" - Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"

"The Grange, which was the area of Edinburgh in which Pat had been raised, and in which her father still lived, was synonymous with settled, haut-bourgeois existence; the Grange was no Left Bank." ~ Bertie Plays the Blues (2011), Alexander McCall Smith. #BookWormSat [🎨Iain McIntosh]

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then forever! Deep in heart-wrung tears   I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves him? Ae Fond Kiss Burns #BookWormSat 🖼️ Renoir

"Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glist’ning streamers waved and danced, The wanderer’s eye could barely view The summer heaven’s delicious blue; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream." -The Lady of the Lake Sir Walter Scott

'Row, vassals, row, for the pride of the Highlands! Stretch to your oars for the ever-green Pine!' ~ Walter Scott. Tomorrow’s #BookWormSat coincides with the birthday of Walter Scott so it seems only right and proper that we have a day of Scottish literature. Join us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿