About this ebook
When the king’s son comes to the region, the stepmother and half-sisters of The Snow-White Maiden deny her request to attend church to see the Prince. However, with the assistance of Cantrips and her Enchantment Wand, she sees the Prince and catches his eye. When he follows her, succeeds in stealing her golden shoe, and vows to marry the one it fits, her sister is willing to go to great lengths to prevent the Snow-White Maiden from enjoying her happy ever after…
“If I were in your place, I would send her away to that little island over there.”
Unsuccessful in her attempts to kill her stepdaughter, the Queen convinces her husband to send the daughter from his first marriage to live on an island for three years. The Maid of the Isle makes the acquaintance of three lads, whose friendship over the years help thwart her stepmother’s plans, which grow ever more desperate when a Prince comes to ask for her hand in marriage…
This duo of Inner Hebridean fairytales extend beyond the traditional stories of ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Diamonds & Toads.’ Each has an episode of the Supplanted Bride or Heroine at the close of the tale, and can be enjoyed together in this new edition.
[Folklore Type: ATU-510A (The Persecuted Heroine) or ATU-480 (The Kind and Unkind Girls)]
About the author
Jessie Wallace was born in Argyllshire in the early 1830s to steamboat Captain John Campbell of the Cygnet and his wife, Helen MacGregor. The family moved from Kingairloch, on the shores of Loch Linnhe, to Appin in her early years. Her younger brother was Rev. John Gregorson Campbell, a Scottish folklorist and Minster of the parishes of Tiree and Coll. Jessie married James Wallace in 1873 and had a son, John Campbell Wallace, who sadly died when he was 4-years-old. By 1881, Jessie was living with her brother and mother in the Manse of Tiree. She shared her brother’s passion for folklore and her work was published in several journals, including “The Celtic Magazine” and “Highland Monthly.” Following the death of her mother in 1890 and her brother eighteen months later, Jessie published (together with Duncan MacIsaac) a collection of Rev. Campbell’s work, “Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands and Islands” [London: David Nutt, 1895]. She died of arteriosclerosis on 14 Feb 1919.
The son of Donald and Jessie MacLeod, Rev. Kenneth MacLeod was born on Eigg on 2 February 1871, and was a lover of folklore, especially from his native isle. He collaborated often with Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, as her collector and Gaelic translator, for her three volumes of “The Songs of the Hebrides” (1909-1921). He was a famous poet in both Gaelic and English, and is perhaps best known for works such as “The Road to the Isles”—a poem ‘written for the lads in France during the Great War.’ He published two books of West Highland folklore, “The Road to the Isles” (1927) and “The Road to Iona” (1933). The work he did for the preservation of Gaelic literature was recognised in the degree of Doctor of Divinity which was conferred on him by St. Andrews University in 1932.
MacLeod was also a long time Church of Scotland minister; after being ordained in 1917, he was the minster Colonsay and Oronsay until 1923, and then of Gigha and Cara until 1947. He died in Edinburgh on 9 July 1955 and is buried in Taynuilt cemetery, and he is commemorated in stained-glass windows in Gigha Church and in Iona Abbey.
Rachel Louise Lawrence is a British author who translates and adapts folk and fairy tales from original texts and puts them back into print, particularly the lesser-known British & Celtic variants.
Since writing her first story at the age of six, Rachel has never lost her love of writing and reading. A keen wildlife photographer and gardener, she is currently working on several writing projects.
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