Shetland Folklore
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
Shetland is steeped in a rich folklore.
Tales of Trows, ghostly apparitions, strange sea creatures, selkies, and supernatural happenings. When a person looks into the darkness with the aid of a flickering oil lamp, many strange shadows are cast. These shadows take on shapes and forms in the perception of that person. Did they see just a shadow, or was it something else? Will they see the same next time? What will they say they saw? How will the person they tell relay the story? All these factors come together to create great tales of "Things That Go Bump In The Night".
But what do you believe? Can you say these things are not real? How real is something when the human mind believes that it is?
Is a Trow something to be feared? Must we worry that Selkies are people lost to the sea? Are Ghosts real?
Of course all these things are real. They are real in the mind of anybody who can accept that everything is possible, in...
SHETLAND FOLKLORE
Perhaps one of the best books when it comes to exploration of Shetland Folklore, is "Told Round The Peat Fire" by Andrew T. Cluness. This book, first published in November 1955, reprinted in December 1955, and August 1958, comes up for sale every now and then at a Shetland book auction. It is a must buy, or borrow book. A new edition was published by Shetland Publishing Company 1994. (IBSN 0 906736 17 X)
Shetland Festivals and Special days
Shetland Tales
