Wild Folk: Tales from the Stones (damaged copy - please see photograph)

Wild Folk: Tales from the Stones

Jackie Morris & Tamsin Abbott

Published by Unbound, an imprint of the Boundless Publishing Group, 2025

ISBN: 978 1 78965 230 7

• English
• Hardback, 240 pages
  
• Illustrated throughout in colour
• 16.8 x 23.5 cm
• Condition: good, as new except smudged ink on pages 16 and 17

Wild Folk comprises seven richly illustrated fables of transformation and power, summoned from the ancient stones beneath our feet and hewn by word and image into portals between past and future. The tales are neither new nor old. The are full of 'wild folk', shapeshifting spirits that carry the energy that connects all things.

You will meet selkies and silver trout and the black fox, as big as a wolf and so fast and cunning she drives the lord of the manor to madness and oblivion; the woman of flowers who is happier living as an owl; the boy who learns to feel the songs and stories of trees through his skin; Wayland, the smith who can hammer metal to such airy thinness he makes his own wings; and the great white raven, a bird so rare it awakens the king who sleeps beneath the stones of the wild west cliffs of Wales.

This book brings together the words of Jackie Morris and the stained-glass paintings of Tamsin Abbott, but the stories come from both, a true collaboration born out of friendship and hope. These are tales to make you see, listen and most of all to feel the wild magic that links stone, tree, fox and star.

This is a second-hand book. All proceeds go directly to supporting the only museum of stained glass in the UK.

To find out more please visit www.stainedglassmuseum.com