Thistle and Thyme

Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland is a 1962 collection of ten Scottish folklore tales by American author Sorche Nic Leodhas and illustrated by Evaline Ness. It is a companion book to an earlier collection of Scottish folklore by Leodhas called Heather and Broom: Tales of the Scottish Highlands.^[1] In the longest tale, The Laird's Lass and the Gobha's Son, the beautiful daughter of a laird falls in love with the son of a blacksmith (gobha); the girl's father forbids her from marrying the boy, so she turns to a wizard for help.^[1] The book was recognized with a Newbery Honor in 1964.^[2]

• The Laird's Lass and the Gobha's Son
• St. Cuddy and the Grey Geese
• The Stolen Bairn and the Sidh
• The Lass Who Went Out at the Cry of Dawn
• The Changeling and the Fond Young Mother
• The Bride Who Out Talked the Water Kelpie
• The Drowned Bells of the Abbey
• The Beekeeper and the Bewitched Hare
• The Fisher Lad and the Mermaid's Ring
• Michael Scott and the Demon