ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARGARET BENNETT prize-winning author, well known singer and broadcaster. She has written extensively about Scottish folklore and culture at home and abroad and her eleven books include Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave. A former lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, she holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at the University of St Andrews, teaches part-time at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, and is Honorary Professor of Antiquities and Folklore at the Royal Academy of Scotland.