Traditional Fairy Tales

Sources

Whuppity Stourie and The Puddae are from:

A Forgotten Heritage: Original Folk Tales of Lowland Scotland by Hannah Aitken;

First Published 1973;

Scottish Academic Press (Edinburgh and London).

The illustration to The Puddae is from:

The Rose Fairy Book by Andrew Lang;

First Published 1951;

Longman, Green and Co Ltd (London).

Editing for Scotstext

• spurious apostrophes removed;
• spellings de-anglicised (eg 'took' changed to 'teuk');
• Scots spellings made more consistent (eg 'loof' changed to 'luif');
• grammar edited somewhat in favour of more classical models of Scots.