Book description
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.
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.
